• Never ceases to amaze me how far weak signals can propagate

    From Gareth Paley@21:1/5 to Custos Custodum on Fri Aug 27 06:40:47 2021
    On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 11:09:36 AM UTC+1, Custos Custodum wrote:
    On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 07:32:53 +0100, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
    <kinvig...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

    On 04/08/2021 00:24, Gareth Paley wrote:
    Over the last few days I've been alternating between a mcHF SDR radio with WJSTX CAT control and a stand alone WSPR beacon running on a ?BITX kit radio - both feeding 1 watt into an end fed halfwave wire just 30 feet above ground.

    Had my first spot from Australia on 20m today - 16919km away with just 1 watt. Other spots from 9590km on 15m and 7128km on 10m.

    1 watt is too easy - I'm going to have to start winding down the power :-)

    https://www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS

    Oh dear it will be FT8 next .....
    Yup! Real amateur radio. None of your 40m inter-G CB.

    Don't often operate 40m but I do have an antenna up for it and noticed sunset band conditions were particularly good last night - heard a couple of JA's so I tuned my WSPR beacon to 40m and left it running at half a watt overnight to see if I could bag
    some grey line DX this morning. Was spotted by VK7BO, VK4EMM as well as a shortwave listener in New Zealand in RE68MX square - 18423km (11448 miles) distance. Not bad going for half a watt. You can see my spots at the bottom of my QRZ page here: https://
    www.qrz.com/db/M0WWS

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