Topband: Anyone using WSPR or WSPR-X?

Eric NO3M no3m at no3m.net
Wed Sep 3 14:30:00 EDT 2014


-33 is the lowest I've personally decoded, been decoded, and have seen 
between others.  Currently running WSPR4 in Linux with a Microham MK2R+ 
(built in USB soundcard).

73 Eric NO3M / WG2XJM

On 09/03/2014 01:41 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Wed,9/3/2014 2:39 AM, Mike Waters wrote:
>> Yesterday I decoded a Chinese station on 30m WSPR, at a level of -28. 
>> From
>> http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/spots:
>> 2014-09-02 21:34  BZ1UIF  10.140268  -28  0  ND81  5  W0BTU EM37  17566
>>   158
>>
>> According to something you said in your interface PDF, the -28 seems to
>> indicate that I already have a decent sound card (among other 
>> things.) What
>> do you think?
>
> Probably yes, but my testing was JT65, where -22 to -23 is pretty much 
> the lower limit at which signals can be decoded. WSPR uses a more 
> powerful noise reduction protocol that can get deeper into the noise 
> floor. Check the WSPR doc for what that limit is.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC


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