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FT8 Killng WSPR ?
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Listening on 6m I hear lots of FT8 transmissions from all over Eu, but WSPR
there is none. not one - not even me :-(
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Judging by the late 24hrs, maybe they were all
on 10m. I counted almost 200 stations on 10m yesterday. 200! :-)
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As I type this, wsprnet shows 225 stations on
10m Vs 64 on 6m. Never seen it so busy.
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M3MSM heard 79 different 10m WSPR stations yesterday despite an NVIS indoor
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antenna.Quite incredible. And as I type I'm hearing french simplex stations on S22 (2m). could this possibly be connected with lower aircraft pollution? - if only... 73
On 19 May 2020 at 6:49, Andy Brilleaux via groups.io wrote:
As I type this, wsprnet shows 225 stations on
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Hi Mike,
Well certainly something out of the ordinary had happened, because I've never ever witness sporadic e lasting 22 hours yesterday. My wspr spots were continuous during all that time. Even you managed to hear me short skip :-) And the fun continues again today. It's one hell of this being party again today. I think the wspr stations reported by wspr net have today reached an all time high. Amazing.
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You had the audacity to sully my receiver with your wspr sigs Andy!....
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shame on you >vbg> its certainly an event to beat all others... incredible. the WSPR Challenge site is good for quantitive thingies.. http://wspr.pe1itr.com
On 19 May 2020 at 7:02, Andy Brilleaux via groups.io wrote:
Hi Mike,
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And the qrss signals on 10m were plentiful too.
See attached grab.
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I worked 800+ on 10M yesterday alone. I’m what you would call and avid CW man, over the years most of my contacts were made via CW… Yesterday, I looked at my contact stats for the last 365 days and 89% of my contacts were made digitally. I think I just have to bite the bullet and throw this digital hardware out of the shack.
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From: QRPLabs@groups.io [mailto:QRPLabs@groups.io] On Behalf Of Andy Brilleaux via groups.io
Judging by the late 24hrs, maybe they were all
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ajparent1/kb1gmx
As a phone op FT8 was termail boring so its there but not used...
However I'm active of 10M and 6M nearly every day. Also 10 has shown some really excellent openings both US and DX. Soon 6M will show Sporadic E up this way and it will get more interesting. Allison ------------------------------- Please reply on list so we can share. No private email, it goes to a bit bucket due address harvesting
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Well it's still going full blast on 10m.
I have never witness such a continuum in my life. As one wsprnet forum user has said, sporadic E is to be renamed as Chronic E's ;-) And why now ? Is there an absence of air pollution that effects the normal process of ionisation ? The timing is perfect. I understand that nitrous oxide is now reduced, but I would have thought the availability of NO2 would have been useful, as something TO ionise. Baffled ?
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I've got a theory, it down to all the excess of floating coronoviruses getting ionised.
It must be true, Alex Jones says so.
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jjpurdum
Andy: It's interesting to look at this: You can change options using the Earth tag and clicking on points of interest, and you can rotate the global by dragging it. Look at chemical pollution and look at the worst offender. Too bad it doesn't have E-layer depiction. Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 3:38:48 PM EDT, Andy Brilleaux via groups.io <punkbiscuit@...> wrote:
Well it's still going full blast on 10m. I have never witness such a continuum in my life. As one wsprnet forum user has said, sporadic E is to be renamed as Chronic E's ;-) And why now ? Is there an absence of air pollution that effects the normal process of ionisation ? The timing is perfect. I understand that nitrous oxide is now reduced, but I would have thought the availability of NO2 would have been useful, as something TO ionise. Baffled ?
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jjpurdum
Makes sense to me! Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 3:55:44 PM EDT, Andy Brilleaux via groups.io <punkbiscuit@...> wrote:
I've got a theory, it down to all the excess of floating coronoviruses getting ionised. It must be true, Alex Jones says so.
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I'm looking at the chemical map on that which I assume would be the most useful
(not particulates) ? They key mentioned SO4 and Carbon monoxide. Surely the atomic weight of these are far too heavy to even make it to the E layer, where they would provide a useful skip distance when ionised ? CO =58 compared to stuff like Oxygen / Helium / Nitrogen / Argon that usually make up the classical ionised layers. I'm not an expert though ;-)
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denniszabawa@...
FT8 killed PSK31. Next in line, WSPR. Seeing a pattern here? We tend to adopt the flavor of the month when it comes to digital modes.
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jjpurdum
Naw, that was tongue-in-cheek. Still, it's an interesting map. I wish I had the code they use for graphing the globe, as I would like to tie it in to some "beam-heading" software I wrote. The idea was to type in your coordinates once, and then type in the prefix of the country you're trying to work, and the image would show a "heading wedge" starting at your QTH and spreading out to their QTH (actually, the capital city of the country). You could then see the proper beam heading printed on the display. However, I have not been able to find someone who has the software to center an azimuth projection of the world centered on a variable map point (e.g., your QTH). If anyone has access to such a piece of code, I'd sure like to see it. Jack, W8TEE
On Tuesday, May 19, 2020, 4:14:53 PM EDT, Andy Brilleaux via groups.io <punkbiscuit@...> wrote:
I'm looking at the chemical map on that which I assume would be the most useful (not particulates) ? They key mentioned SO4 and Carbon monoxide. Surely the atomic weight of these are far too heavy to even make it to the E layer, where they would provide a useful skip distance when ionised ? CO =58 compared to stuff like Oxygen / Helium / Nitrogen / Argon that usually make up the classical ionised layers. I'm not an expert though ;-)
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Arv Evans <arvid.evans@...>
Jack Lots more if you do a Google search for "beam heading software". Not sure how much of that is public domain or source code, but it does show that others are thinking about the same thing. Arv _._
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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:29 PM, jjpurdum wrote:
Naw, that was tongue-in-cheek. Still, it's an interesting map.LOL! But it proves that the world is full of wind ;-)
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Ben Bangerter, K0IKR
Andy,
CO has a molecular weight of 28, same as nitrogen (N2). There appears to be a hot spot in Manitoba, NW of Winnipeg. A new active volcano we have not heard about? Ben, K0IKR
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