[600MRG] WH2XGP update

[Larry]

John,

 From out here in left field, things look a lot different.

For instance, at 0400z the sun is just at the horizon and there is very 
little chance of hearing much from the east for about an hour when the 
"sunset flash" is currently happening. Now at 0500z most of the country 
has gone to bed so if they haven't left their WSPR station on, I'm out 
of luck.

Friday nite wasn't too bad as I recall but last night was a bit slim 
here. I did log your signal John, and VE7BDQ but that was all that made 
it through my noise. My only reception reports were from the usual 
western guys and KL7L.

My plan is to keep the station running WSPR 24/7/365 except for those 
periods when I need to work on it or need it for CW/JT9 activity. It 
doesn't make any sense at all to me to do it any differently!

Speaking of activity, where are all these new grant people? Are they off 
in the weeds messing with obscure modes or micro power CW or are they 
even on the air at all? It boogles my mind to see folks going through 
the effort of applying and paying for the license grant and then not 
getting on the air.

Maybe there is another venue that I am not aware of where announcements 
of activity are being made?

73,

Larry - W7IUV / WH2XGP



On 07-Jul-14 4:14 PM, John Langridge wrote:
> Thanks for the reports and for keeping your stuff running Larry.
>
> <Seems like there was little activity over the holiday weekend.
>
> from my perspective, there was quite a bit of activity this past weekend but perhaps that's the benefit of living in the middle of the country.  Seemed like Friday night had a huge number of  stations on WSPR in NA.. This coincided with good CW activity between here in NTX and WPA.  Saturday was noisier and while XJM got his reports from me, I was not hearing him consistently enough.  My RX antennas are down at the moment as I am doing a rework with them so it was a deficiency on my end and noise level was up.  Surprisingly, the vertical has been nice to listen to even now, so long as there are no local storms causing static spikes...a stable, however elevated, noise level has just not been a real problem thus far here.  If there was a night that was a bust of the 3, last night was it.  Still pretty good but a wider distribution of noise makers around the country...It kinda looks like it might be like that tonight too, but we will have to see what
>   happens after dark I suppose.
>
> If things shape up and I can stay awake, I will call CQ in CW at 474.5 around 0400z tonight for a bit and see what shakes out.  will have to see what WSPR suggests about conditions earlier in the evening.  I think we have gained 15 seconds of darkness since the solstice... small gains are better than none...HI
>
>
> 73,
>
> John XIQ
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: Larry <larry at w7iuv.com>
> To: 600 MRG <600MRG at w7ekb.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 10:25 AM
> Subject: [600MRG] WH2XGP update
>
>
> The station has been running WSPR continuously since the A/C incident.
> However yesterday evening I lost Internet access, and therefor WSPRnet
> access, from afternoon until early this morning.
>
> The only station heard last night was WG2XIQ a number of times.
>
> Seems like there was little activity over the holiday weekend.
>
> 73,
>
> Larry - W7IUV / WH2XGP
> DN07dg - central WA
> http://w7iuv.com
>
>
>
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