Thursday, April 8, 2010

WSPR & V51 Namibia on 10m


Back messing about with the radio again. Tried out listening with WSPR on 30m & 60m over the last few days. It's so easy.......just run the software, put the mic from the pc next to the loudspeaker of the HF rig and away you go.

Spotted a few German stations this morning so there was some Sp-E about. Start of the Sporadic-E season!

Around 14:00, I heard V53ARC in Namibia which was a big suprise! So much for a dead band!

I would say the most likely reason was a single F2 hop from V53 to southern Europe and then via a single Sporadic-E hop from there to the UK and Ireland.

WSPR spots below for V53ARC

TimestampCallMHzSNRDriftGridPwrReporterRGridkmaz
2010-04-08 14:30 V53ARC 28.126160 -22 -1 JG87 1 IW2DZX JN45kp 7624 354
2010-04-08 14:14 V53ARC 28.126148 -19 0 JG87 1 G3JKV IO91uf 8373 349
2010-04-08 14:14 V53ARC 28.126147 -2 0 JG87 1 EI7GL IO51tu 8630 344
2010-04-08 13:56 V53ARC 28.126173 -23 0 JG87 1 IW2DZX JN45kp 7624 354
2010-04-08 13:40 V53ARC 28.126151 -22 0 JG87 1 G3JKV IO91uf 8373 349
2010-04-08 13:24 V53ARC 28.126142 -27 0 JG87 1 G3JKV IO91uf 8373 349

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