Amongst his conclusions is that "Opera8, QRSS10 (or DFCW10) and WSPR should have a more or less equal performance." This is very much as I have found from practical experience on 136kHz where QRSS3 does not perform as well as QRSS30 which is somewhat better than WSPR. So, WSPR being much the same as QRSS10 seems spot on. The advantage of WSPR is of course the internet database reporting which allows you to see where you have been received. QRSS reports depend on someone decoding the signals by eye and then manually sending you a report, which rarely happens. So, WSPR remains my favourite weak signal beaconing mode.
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| ON7YD's graph showing the effectiveness of various weak signal modes |
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Where is the link to the comparison article that has that image? I can't find it on the ON7YD Web Site. Tnx, David
http://on7yd.strobbe.eu/QRSS/ is the link.
Hello Roger, Thank you for the fine diagram. I see that WSPR with an S/N of -29dB still gives 100% readability, so I will apply this figure in my Excel sheet to calculate the Lowest Possible Power in the analysis of WSPR spots. 73, Bert
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