Friday, 26 June 2020

Australia on 2 Watts


Extremely happy - Running WSPR on a Raspberry Pi 4 driving an FT-817 with Yaesu  SCU-17 sound card interface, I have been heard in Australia! (Anyone else getting spurious decodes with a similar setup ?)


The  antenna is a MALDOL 40 metre band mobile whip mounted on a clothes dryer spike and a "Clansman" PRC counterpoise...


Although I reported 5 Watts (37 dBm) in the transmission, the AGC was backed off and I have since measured the output power with an RMS meter at just under 2 Watts.  I think it's time to build the QRP Labs Ultimate WSPR/QRSS kit or even a Raspberry Pi transmitter!

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