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Some of the WSPR stations heard by EI3RCW on 80m |
Regular users of the
WSPR system may have noticed the call sign EI3RCW pops up on a lot of coverage maps. Located in the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) campus, the station uses a Funcube dongle and a Wimo 40m long wire antenna to monitor the various HF bands.
When the call sign was allocated a few years back, WIT was known as the Regional College Waterford, hence the EI3RCW call.
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Funcube dongle monitoring WSPR transmissions from 80m to 10m |
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Long wire antenna installed at the college campus |
The EI3RCW WSPR station was set up by Eoghan EI5HBB and he has it configured to hop between the various bands on a schedule throughout the day. The software used to monitor the WSPR transmissions is WSJT-X.
The screen shot below some of the WSPR stations heard on 7 MHz including the
Swedish Polar Research Vessel ODEN which EI3RCW is helping to track as it makes its way from Sweden to Greenland.
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Some of the WSPR stations heard by EI3RCW on 40m |