WSPR on 30m last night…
I’ve seen a lot of mention recently of WSPR being used by amateur radio stations on various bands. Of particular interest is what seems to be increasing activity outside of the 30m band, the traditional ‘home’ of WSPR.
My rig was tuned to 30m last night so before venturing onto new bands I had a quick refresher course on 30m. I left things running for about 45 minutes, not long I know but this can often yield lots of spots and stations heard. Results last night were disappointing - despite a few moderate to strong traces seen I had no stations decoded at my RX and my signal wasn’t ’spotted’ by any stations (WSPR spots database).
Conditions weren’t great to be fair and sometimes it doesn’t take much differences in signal to noise ratio to make all the difference in the world when it comes to decoding very weak WSPR signals. I know the antenna works kind of OK on 30m though because I worked K5D on that band back in February.
I’ll try again in the next few days and then move on to 40m where I hope to conduct regular tests to gauge how well my antenna works on that band.