[600MRG] Missed messages - well golly shucks...

[John Langridge]

Bill,
Several of us are using WSPR as an indicator of up-to-the minute band conditions and are arranging CW skeds via email in real time based on that data.  Things tend to develop very quickly with the rapidly changing band conditions, which make it really ideal for making decisions about skeds.   In the past, at least last season, those QSOs might have gotten reported to the reflector after the fact if they were notable and at the very least were manually logged in the 600m database.

Note that I am running a CW ID at the end of each 2 minute WSPR transmission for those that might not be in a position to decode the FSK signal.  Its been very useful for mobile listeners who are making signal observations within a few hundred miles of my station and not in a position to decode WSPR going down the road.

So that's a little more than you asked for but hopefully it paints a picture how both modes have gotten interwoven in the real aspect of operating.  It will never replace calling CQ on CW but until the population of operators increases on the band, its a good place to go digging for potential QSOs.

73,

John XIQ





________________________________
 From: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
To: 600mrg at w7ekb.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:42 PM
Subject: [600MRG] Missed messages - well golly shucks...
 

Hi,

I have been missing some messages from people that gmail decided must be spam. I noticed this list in particular slowed way down. I believe I recovered *everything* and most of the messages are no longer of much use. BUT - I see that I missed notifications of some stations running CW - the very ones I have the best luck copying. I'll be cruising through the spam dump at Gmail more often to be sure things don't get that far out of hand again!

So..who is running CW *now* - either in a beacon mode or in QSOs? When we get a ham allocation I intend to operate that mode on the band. I'm looking at some toys that will allow me to copy the WSPR transmissions but with no plans to transmit in that mode.

73,

Bill  KU8H


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