GM0UDL on 20 FST4W RX


Andrew Cowan
 

All,

Just starting with FST4W on Wsprdaemon used it a lot on 2200 and 630 in the winter time with wsjt on PC and RSP dx.
So beam to Europe in daytime evening to USA and North through the night. KIWIA,20,W2:F2:F5 if anybody is testing transmit.

Andrew  GM0UDL


Rolf Ekstrand
 

Greetings,

Put my QDX on FST4W this morning running about 2w into a  R7 vertical on 20 just to see if I could get it to work with wsjt-x.  

Rolf K9DZT


Glenn Elmore
 

Rolf,

Thanks for the update. Very glad to know that the QDX is shipping and works! Hopefully several of us will be receiving ours soon and increasing the number of FST4W transmitters.


UTC   (y-m-d) TX txGrid RX rxGrid MHz W SNR drift km Az° mode km/W spotQ version
2022-07-11 18:46:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097006 2 -21 0 1438 265 2 719 300 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 18:40:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097006 2 -14 0 1438 265 2 719 439 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 18:28:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097006 2 -12 0 1438 265 2 719 479 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 18:12:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -23 0 1438 265 2 719 260 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 17:52:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097006 2 -16 0 1438 265 2 719 399 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 17:32:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -21 0 1438 265 2 719 300 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 17:02:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -10 0 1438 265 2 719 519 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 16:50:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -17 0 1438 265 2 719 379 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 16:32:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -8 0 1438 265 2 719 559 WD_3.0.3.1
2022-07-11 16:16:00 K9DZT EN52wx N6GN/K DN70jo 14.097005 2 -12 0 1438 265 2 719 479 WD_3.0.3.1

Today I am also transmitting and mode hopping from at least mode2 through mode15 using WSJT-X and a homebrew Anan SDR.  Transmitted frequency is GPS referenced to sub-ppb at WSPR band center at 14.097100 MHz

N6GN/K is decoding mode2 through mode30, in case you want to try longer modes.

Quite a few stations are set  to receive many or all modes on 20m.

Glenn n6gn


On 7/11/22 11:19, Rolf Ekstrand wrote:
Greetings,

Put my QDX on FST4W this morning running about 2w into a  R7 vertical on 20 just to see if I could get it to work with wsjt-x.  

Rolf K9DZT


Andrew Cowan
 

Thinking it was not receiving but here is my first FST4W decode

2022-07-12 20:20  N6GN  14.097000  -25  0  DN70ll  5  GM0UDL  IO77vo  6879  37  5 

The setup is a Beelink SER3 Ryzen7 3750H running Ubuntu desktop 22.04 thanks to Rob support in getting that working.

For any Ubuntu users on reboot I need to stop WSPDaemon and start to get it to run so thinking if I loose power it wont return to working.
Can give exact symptoms if anyone is interested.

Andrew 



Rob Robinett
 

Run 'wd -A'  (that is CAPITAL A) to have WD configure your server so that WD comes up during a power up or reboot event.
You can check that will happen by running the command:  "sudo systemctl status wsprdaemon".  Here is a system notq configured to run WD at startup:

wsprdaemon@KFS-TC:~$ sudo systemctl status wsprdaemon
● wsprdaemon.service - WSPR daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/wsprdaemon.service;
disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     
Active: inactive (dead)
wsprdaemon@KFS-TC:~$


Here is a system that is configured for WD to run at startup:

wsprdaemon@KFS-WD3:~$ sudo systemctl status wsprdaemon
● wsprdaemon.service - WSPR daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/wsprdaemon.service;
enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     
Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-07-12 17:24:44 UTC; 1 day 22h ago
   Main PID: 2376 (wsprdaemon.sh)
      Tasks: 10 (limit: 144881)
     Memory: 121.7M
     CGroup: /system.slice/wsprdaemon.service
             ├─  2376 /bin/bash /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -u a
             ├─  2411 /bin/bash /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -u a
             ├─  2429 /bin/bash /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -u a
             ├─  2454 /bin/bash /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -u a
             ├─  2470 /bin/bash /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -u a
             ├─243821 sleep 1
             ├─243822 sleep 1
             ├─243831 sleep 1
             ├─243834 sleep 1
             └─243835 sleep 1

Jul 14 16:17:06 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[234575]:   spot_lines=np.genfromtxt(csv_file.name, dtype='str', delimiter=',', loose=True, invalid_raise=False)
Jul 14 16:19:08 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[235714]: /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprnet_azi_calc.py:146: ConversionWarning: Some errors were detected !
Jul 14 16:19:08 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[235714]:     Line #473 (got 4 columns instead of 16)
Jul 14 16:19:08 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[235714]:   spot_lines=np.genfromtxt(csv_file.name, dtype='str', delimiter=',', loose=True, invalid_raise=False)
Jul 14 16:20:32 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[241785]: ERROR:root:Unable to record spot file to the database: Connected Got cursor Not executed Not committed
Jul 14 16:20:32 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[236479]: /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/upload_server_utils.sh: line 349: UPLOAD_BATCH_PYTHON_CMD: unbound variable
Jul 14 16:22:03 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[242668]: /home/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon/wsprnet_azi_calc.py:146: ConversionWarning: Some errors were detected !
Jul 14 16:22:03 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[242668]:     Line #153 (got 4 columns instead of 16)
Jul 14 16:22:03 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[242668]:     Line #256 (got 4 columns instead of 16)
Jul 14 16:22:03 KFS-WD3 wsprdaemon.sh[242668]:   spot_lines=np.genfromtxt(csv_file.name, dtype='str', delimiter=',', loose=True, invalid_raise=False)
wsprdaemon@KFS-WD3:~$


On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 7:24 AM Andrew Cowan <gm0udlandrew@...> wrote:
Thinking it was not receiving but here is my first FST4W decode

2022-07-12 20:20  N6GN  14.097000  -25  0  DN70ll  5  GM0UDL  IO77vo  6879  37  5 

The setup is a Beelink SER3 Ryzen7 3750H running Ubuntu desktop 22.04 thanks to Rob support in getting that working.

For any Ubuntu users on reboot I need to stop WSPDaemon and start to get it to run so thinking if I loose power it wont return to working.
Can give exact symptoms if anyone is interested.

Andrew 




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Rob Robinett
AI6VN
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Andrew Cowan
 

Rob 
Thanks for that 

Had to use this command  "~/wsprdaemon/wsprdaemon.sh -A" the run command was not recognized 
Then after this  "sudo systemctl status wsprdaemon" and all appeared as seen on your msg.
Reboot and check status all running.

Andrew