All week I have been trying out (again) on 500uW 10m WSPR. Yet again, my 500uW 10m WSPR has been spotted in the USA again and I have lost count of the number of spots by EA8BFK (2880km) in the Canary Is..
30 Mar 2024
29 Mar 2024
8m QRP FT8 (Friday)
My 2.5W and dipole have been on most of the day. No spots of me although I did copy ZR1ADI (9777km) in Western Cape, South Africa.
500uW 10m WSPR (Friday)
Amazingly, EA8BFK (2880km) has spotted my extreme QRPP 6 times already!! I had to double check it really was 500uW (0.5mW). It definitely was!!
UPDATE 0917z: 11 spots already of my 500uW (0.5mW) by EA8BFK. Amazing.
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UPDATE 1630z: 27 spots of me today including 3 from the USA. Quite incredible for 500uW. Conditions must have been very good these last few days. The map (from WSPR Rocks by Phil VK7JJ) shows the 10m WSPR spots these last few days with 500uW (0.5mW).
Dramatic clouds- NOT amateur radio
As the rain came in earlier in the week, we were treated to some spectacular clouds in our close as the photo shows.
630m QRP WSPR overnight
Overnight my 10mW ERP 630m WSPR was spotted by 14 stations. Best DX spots were from Norway.
28 Mar 2024
SPRAT article
It was very pleasing to see my short article about the use of the ISM bands for QRPP beaconing in the latest SPRAT.
In the UK this means 10mW ERP on the HiFer and 8m ISM bands under IR2030 interface regulations. No callsign is mandated and this is licence free. It is a good idea to use a callsign that WSPRnet can cope with if using WSPR. Likewise if using FT8, choose a callsign that PSKreporter can handle.
Certainly on the 8m ISM band 10mW ERP WSPR is enough to reach into much of Europe on Es. The same is probably true of the HiFer band too.
630m QRP WSPR
My 630m 10mW ERP WSPR was turned on at about 1911z this evening. So far, 4 stations have spotted me.
UPDATE 2035z: 12 stations have spotted me so far.
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