tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9071048343455395511.post8103666178147796885..comments2024-03-24T22:03:31.205+00:00Comments on Roger G3XBM's (Mainly) Amateur Radio Blog: 6m Es - yes! 6m super DX?Roger G3XBMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13673890140751539870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9071048343455395511.post-75906786587705540522015-06-03T22:20:59.682+01:002015-06-03T22:20:59.682+01:00Well done on the 4X1RF spot today Nick. This is a ...Well done on the 4X1RF spot today Nick. This is a very long way for 6m Es. He copied me several times last summer and again a few weeks ago. Still not convinced this is multi-hop Es. Roger G3XBMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13673890140751539870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9071048343455395511.post-86392006072163210092015-06-03T18:19:50.716+01:002015-06-03T18:19:50.716+01:00My best DX so far on 6M WSPR with a spot from 4X1R...My best DX so far on 6M WSPR with a spot from 4X1RF this afternoon. My 6M WSPR station after a few hurdles is stable running on a Raspberry Pi 2 with my FT-817 as the transceiver. One hiccup I had was that I cut down a cheap micro usb lead to connect to a power supply. The cable colours inside are standard red, black, green and white. Red/black are power and green/white are the data. On connection the cable didn't work, when I buzzed it out, I found that the black and white wires were transposed, fortunately the Pi did not mind this and was ok when I swapped them over. The best thing about the Pi 2 is that the power consumption is about 2 watts, which is ideal if it is running all the time. <br />The WSPR software has to be compiled from source and while there are a few guides available, all of them seem to miss at least one step so they have to be read in conjunction with each other. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01500290578096593005noreply@blogger.com