WSPR on 10m w/ Yaesu FT-897D @5W

[MaverickNH]

SO I just connected my Yaesu FT-897D up to my Win7(64) PC using a SignaLink USB soundcard box and am running WSPR to automatically Rx/Tx on 10m with " a protocol designed for probing potential propagation paths with low-power transmissions".

I'm getting picked up as far away as Portugal and Urugay on 5W. Pretty cool!

Here's the map:

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EDIT: Got Southern Tasmania at 16,894km. Almost the farthest city from me on earth!

 

[cockpitbob]

Cool. I need to do that. I've got and FT-857D and Signalink but have hardly played with the digital stuff(yet). I have a random, longwire antenna. There's no way of predicting where it likes to go. This might help me get an idea.

 

[ToddDubya]

I was just watching the YousTubes about that this weekend. It seems like a pretty cool application. I gotta get my HF comms up and running pretty soon here.

 

[ToddDubya]

I posted this in another thread, but I thought I'd add it here in case you missed it. HRO has Signalinks on sale, including the cable and free shipping.

http://www.hamradio.com/manufacturer_specials.cfm

 

[ToddDubya]

I ran WSPR briefly this weekend and hit the southwestern US and north western Europe. Considering my antenna is oriented roughly North/South it makes sense that I'd be hitting stuff mostly to the East and West of me. I left it to run for a while and it pretty much crashed right away so I didn't get any long-term data. I'm going to try again tonight if I have time.

I also fooled around with FLDigi a little bit but honestly I think I need to spend some time setting up the SignaLink/Yaesu 857D/Mac first. I can see the waterfalls but I have no idea what my Tx looks like. I called CQ a few times and got no takers and the one CQ I answered I couldn't really talk to the guy. It was too nice out this weekend to spend a lot of time on it.