Fred C (W6BSD)
Stop Guessing and Start Whispering! I recently moved to a new house and had to rebuild my antenna setup from scratch. Like most people, I checked the SWR to make sure my radio was working well, but a good SWR only tells part of the story. It doesn’t show where your signal actually goes after it...
Fred C (W6BSD)
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post asking the question "Where are all the hams?". For that blog post, I generated heat maps of regions of the world showing WSPR1 activity. A few days ago, I sent an email to Philip Gladstone, from the PSK Reporter's website, to ask him if the archive of all the...
Fred C (W6BSD)
When I build or install a new antenna, I always run a series of tests. Like everyone else, I look at the resonant frequency and SWR. But to see how the antenna is performing, I run WSPR1 for a few days. Then I use the data collected by WSPR Net to draw the graphs that can be seen in my previous...