WSPR Receiver 20M KIT RK-20

Advances in communications in recent years have come at a startling pace. In the old days, tocommunicate via radio one needed a good antenna, a selective receiver, and a powerful transmitter.While those items are still useful, today there is one more item required: good software. The “weaksignal propagation reporter” software or WSPR (pronounced “whisper”) is…

WSPR experiments

Today I was running WSPR on 20 meter band with my tuned (by YAESU FC40) End Fed 9m long Wire. The results are not bad at all. Wake Island (KH9) in Pacific (WA2YUN) with 5 /50/100 Watts (Average distance = 11977 km),  and all Europe including the “dark” 20m zone to OE3KFB (Austria). Also contacted…