ladies and gentlemen a very good day this weekend i've had a blast i have transmitted and received
further than i've ever done before and um for instance this here that's my
the 40 meter success that's my transmission plots for 40 meters and then for 20 meters
that's my transmission blocks on transmit i've got the receive plots as well well how do i know
where i've been received from well i've been using whisper okay wspr weak signal propagation reporter
now if you've already got wsjtx downloaded from just just google it right
and you're ready you've run dub ft8 just once you will have on the mode drop down list whisper
so all you need to do is set it up for a one or two watts i set mine up for about two watts
and just left it running because i've got remote desktop here back to holly farm
and i just ran it all weekend so this is on the 40 meter plot that was on the linear loaded
40 meter element on the rapid and this on a 20 meter omnidirectional but it's funny to
see where your signals go i didn't get much down to the caribbean on either the 40 or the 20s so
i don't maybe i need to run it longer or there's nobody in the caribbean receiving me
anyway how do i know that these people have received my signal because i use the psk reporter
function inside wsjtx and it automatically goes up to the big machine in the sky
and it tells tells that that it's received me so joe soap you know
whiskey one alpha bravo charlie might be just be running whisper in receive only mode right and uh
along comes my signal right in the noise and um it automatically uploads to this big machine in
the sky that he's heard me at this time so if i hover over one of these let's say this one here
that whiskey seven whiskey fox 7 whiskey stroke n what's the new one for me heard me at minus 14 db
so i'd probably have to wind up the linear amplifier to get an ssb copy this works all
the way down to minus minus 13. some of these are really good actually what's up what am i on 20
what's 40 like minus 22 minus 26 minus 21. this goes down to about i think it's minus 30 db so you
can write in the noise and if you've never heard whisper before and the last thing i'm gonna do
is tone you what whisper sounds like on youtube it sounds like one continuous tone but in fact
it changes tone every now and again and because his computer and my computer are locked to the
same side time signature he knows where my tone is going to change and where all the tone changes are
so he he he i say could be a she only needs a tiny piece of information of these tones periodically
to be able to piece a message together and the message will be m0 mcx io 92 charlie
india or whatever my main head locator is and my power that's the only thing i'm transmitting
i've got all the way down here to new zealand minus 26 deep in the noise there look
um but give it a go so if you can get ft8 running get whisper running because it's really it's great
fun uh there's contests and all sorts but this is just to show you if you put an antenna up and
you think you're mostly north south or east west or something run whisper all night now
i'm not going to get into the ins and outs of your license conditions on unattended transmissions but
if you certainly if you ran it on the gray line you know like in the summer for the uk
that would be eight o'clock at night to about 11 12. plus add a couple of hours because you've got
to get the us to get into the dark this is on 40 for instance and in the morning from about
four o'clock in the morning just on the gray line for about four i was gonna say four hours each way
that's eight hours two eight to sixteen maybe 16 hours a day but anyway you know what i mean
and then you'll start to get a pattern of where your signal's going in the main this
is on 40 meters i'd say my signal is going almost everywhere to be honest it is a fairly equidistant
good fun isn't it give it a go this video's next in the meantime have a lovely week
uh we're off when well when you watch this we'll probably be imbued in cornwall i'm not taking any
ready equipment with me the first time in five or six years i'm slightly radioed out right now
in the meantime enjoy the video and i'll see you next time bye for now