At the Pacific Northwest QRP gathering a few weeks back, one of the
presenters ran WSPRnet overnight on his K3. I was amazed at the
propagation! Indeed, he used the live data in his presentation, and I was
flabberghasted to see that a huge 6m opening had occured an hour ealier.
I'm not particularly excited by point-and-click QSOs, but I am interested
in using the same tools to generate opening alerts.
Meanwhile, I had the 20m static on softly during my late night (12a -
1a PDT) piano practices this week, and I heard a surprising amount of cw
-- a nice reminder that 20m isn't just a night time band during Field Day
:).
- kb7psg
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Sid Frissell wrote:
You "20 meters is dead all day" guys need to check out WSJT-X (JT-9 and
JT-65). At least here in MT 14076 is busy every day all day! You can
find many US and VE stations plus a very good mix of DX. I have only
been on this mode since late in 2014 (been a ham since 1950) and I have
worked over 100 DX entities. {I started over when I took up digital.
New ones are still popping up. Plenty of QSO's. No rag-chewing of
course !!! Also, my DX spotter in DXLabd seems to keep rolling out
spots all day--many on 20, both SSB and cw. Try 14076. I call it
"Mouse-click Radio" as thats all you have to do. At least you will hear
(see?) activity.
73, Sid. NZ7M
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