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Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦Not much <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/FT8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FT8</a> on 20m right now and I just started listening for <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> (which will take a while to show up) but you can see <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Morse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Morse</a> is hopping on the lower end of the band. <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radio</a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/wsjtx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wsjtx</a>

Bryan KingWhy Every Future Ham Radio Operator Should Know About WSJT-X (Even Before Getting a License)678 words, 4 minutes read timeIf you’re a guy intrigued by the world of amateur radio but haven’t yet taken the plunge to get licensed, there’s a powerful tool that can ignite your passion and deepen your understanding: WSJT-X. This software suite, developed by Nobel Laureate Dr. Joe Taylor (K1JT), is revolutionizing the way amateur radio enthusiasts communicate, especially under weak-signal conditions<a href="https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">.</a>What Is WSJT-X?WSJT-X stands for “Weak Signal Joe Taylor – eXtended.” It’s a free, open-source software designed for weak-signal digital communication by amateur radio. The suite includes various modes like FT8, FT4, JT65, and WSPR, each optimized for different types of radio-wave propagation. Why Should You Care About WSJT-X?Even without a license, WSJT-X offers a window into the amateur radio world. You can monitor signals, understand propagation patterns, and get a feel for the community. It’s like being a fly on the wall in a global conversation, offering insights that can be invaluable when you decide to pursue your license.Getting Started with WSJT-X<ol><li>Download and Install: Visit the <a href="https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">official WSJT-X website</a> to download the software compatible with your operating system.<a href="https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WSJT+2WSJT+2WSJT+2</a></li><li>Set Up Your Hardware: While transmitting requires a license, receiving doesn’t. You can start by connecting a Software Defined Radio (SDR) like the RTL-SDR to your computer. This setup allows you to receive signals and observe the digital modes in action.</li><li>Configure the Software: Input your location details and set up the audio input from your SDR. Ensure your computer’s clock is synchronized accurately, as digital modes like FT8 are time-sensitive.</li><li>Start Listening: Once set up, you can start monitoring various bands. You’ll see call signs, signal reports, and other data scrolling across your screen, providing a real-time look at global communications.</li></ol>Understanding Digital ModesWSJT-X supports several digital modes, each with unique characteristics:<ul><li>FT8: The most popular mode, designed for quick and efficient communication under weak signal conditions.</li><li>FT4: Faster than FT8, suitable for contesting and rapid exchanges.</li><li>JT65 and JT9: Older modes, still used for specific applications like moonbounce communications.</li><li>WSPR: Stands for “Weak Signal Propagation Reporter,” used for testing propagation paths with low-power transmissions.</li></ul>Learning from the CommunityEngaging with the amateur radio community can enhance your learning experience. Platforms like <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reddit’s r/amateurradio</a> offer discussions, advice, and shared experiences from both seasoned operators and newcomers. Additionally, websites like <a href="https://hamstudy.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HamStudy.org</a> provide study tools and resources to help you prepare for your license exam.Monitoring Propagation with PSK Reporter<a href="https://pskreporter.info/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PSK Reporter</a> is a valuable tool that collects and displays reception reports from around the world. By monitoring this data, you can observe real-time propagation conditions and understand how signals travel over various frequencies and distances.Exploring Further with YouTube TutorialsVisual learners can benefit from comprehensive tutorials available on YouTube. For instance, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy7uUQV1wRU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WSJT-X FT8 Tutorial Master Class</a> offers an in-depth look at setting up and operating WSJT-X, providing step-by-step guidance for beginners.ConclusionWSJT-X serves as a gateway into the fascinating world of amateur radio. By observing and understanding digital communications, you can build a solid foundation that will serve you well when you decide to pursue your license. The software offers a hands-on experience that complements theoretical study, making your learning journey both practical and engaging.Ready to dive deeper into the world of amateur radio? Subscribe to our newsletter for more insights, tips, and updates. Have questions or experiences to share? Join the conversation by leaving a comment below. D. Bryan King Sources<ul><li><a href="https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WSJT-X Official Site</a></li><li><a href="https://www.arrl.org/digital-modes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ARRL: Introduction to Digital Modes</a></li><li><a href="https://hamstudy.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HamStudy.org</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/12936" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">eHam WSJT-X Reviews</a></li><li><a href="https://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Software/WSJT/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DXZone: WSJT Software Listings</a></li><li><a href="https://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/WSJT/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ZL1BPU WSJT Overview</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wsjt-x+tutorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube: WSJT-X Tutorials</a></li><li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reddit: r/AmateurRadio Community</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hamradioschool.com/post/ft8-in-wsjt-x-a-new-digital-revolution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ham Radio School: FT8 in WSJT-X</a></li><li><a href="https://www.qrz.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">QRZ.com (Callsign Lookup & Forums)</a></li><li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/wsjt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WSJT-X on SourceForge</a></li><li><a href="https://www.dxwatch.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DXWatch: Spotting DX Activity (for FT8 users)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.hamradiodude.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ham Radio Dude (YouTube & Blog)</a></li><li><a href="https://pskreporter.info/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">PSK Reporter (Real-time Signal Propagation Tool)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.contesting.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contesting.com: Amateur Radio Digital Contesting</a></li></ul>Disclaimer:The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely those of the author. The information provided is based on personal research, experience, and understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing. Readers should consult relevant experts or authorities for specific guidance related to their unique situations. 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Onno (VK6FLAB)Random <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a> monitoring question.I have an rtlsdr monitoring 8 bands by running rtl_wsprd for a set period of time, killing it, then relaunching on a different band.Because 8 bands fit neatly into 24 hours, without prior planning, I'd end up monitoring the same band at the same time each day, something I'd like to avoid.Every time I relaunch I lose at least a potential monitoring cycle, generally two.Would you monitor for 25 hours, under an hour, over an hour, or something else per band?

J.C. KC8JC 📻Fired up the WSPR beacon so my dad can show something to some students at a demo somewhere. He's big on teaching Things And Stuff!I just like having the GPS viewer up in a terminal when the QMX+ is running. It's neat!<a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>

sergio_101<a href="https://mastodon.radio/@Josefius" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Josefius</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/qrplabs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@qrplabs</a> It’s in a box. I need to build it before it gets warm so I can do <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/pota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pota</a>And i want a <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a> station back on the air.

Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW/SO5CWMy WSPR receiver picked up quite a few signals from the US/VE West coast area yesterday that I usually don't see (N6RY, VE7AV, ...), along the grayline (15:10..15:40 UTC - ignore the grayline you see on the screenshot, it's the current one). Today I will keep an eye on my WSPR and see if I can raise some DX on 30m CW at the same time. <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/propagation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propagation</a> <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a>

Onno (VK6FLAB)If everything went to plan, my 10 dBm <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a> beacon is QSY to 15m.

JensGetting a bit quicker at interleaving the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/QMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QMX</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> transmissions with listening on the KX3. :)RX Report 2025-01-07 after 12:00z (MUF Tromsø 26.4 MHz) 20M: OH2B 10 W, CS3B?, RR90? 17M: VR2B?, CS3B 100W 15M: RR9O 10W, VR2B 1W?, 4X6TU? 12M: VR2B 100W, 4X6TU? 10M: CS3B 100W, OH2B? <a href="https://mas.to/@hamchallenge" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hamchallenge</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/HC02" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HC02</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/hamchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamchallenge</a>

J.C. KC8JC 📻WSPR is WILD... Antarctica at 1.5 watts on 17-meters.Nuts. This is just nuts.<a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>

J.C. KC8JC 📻I promise I'll shut up about the QMX+ (in a week or so) but running it as a WSPR beacon and watching the GPS output in the terminal is very soothing.<a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/QMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QMX</a>

J.C. KC8JC 📻Got it!When editing the beacon settings, I was inadvertently setting the time on the QMX+. That means that it wasn't matching up with the receivers. Knowing that drifting as much as 1.5 seconds on FT8 can wreck a QSO, being off by 30 seconds or more was probably going to be a problem.Now: how to force adherence to the GPS which is installed, working, and delivering the correct time to the interface but is for some reason ignored by the beacon portion of the software?<a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/QMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QMX</a>+

J.C. KC8JC 📻PSK Reporter is NOT picking me up today. Hmm. Radio is fascinating. <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>

Onno (VK6FLAB)Me: I wonder why the propagation of my <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> beacon is so crap. I know it's only 10 dBm, but nobody (other than me) has heard it since the 9th of December.Also me: The coax switch to my HF antenna was switched to the wrong radio.

Kelvin n0mql EN35ldRunning a <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> test overnight at 1w going into the rain gutter. Will be interesting to see how well that does. It's noisier than the <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/DXCommander" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DXCommander</a> (somewhat counter-intuitive), but to my ear the SNR is slightly better.Bad match on most bands, but for WSPR that doesn't matter.<a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/HamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HamRadio</a>

Dane HensonI just found out you can make a low power WSPR beacon out of a raspberry pi??? I mean, that makes sense, but I hadn't even considered anything about WSPR yet.Hello rabbit hole.🕳️ 🐇 👀 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AmateurRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmateurRadio</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HamRadio</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>

Mᴀʀᴋ VᴀɴᴅᴇWᴇᴛᴛᴇʀɪɴɢWoke up this morning to find two new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a> spots from New Zealand. These are the first spots internationally from my pico-WSPRer beacon. Not bad for just a few milliwatts banged into a low whip dipole antenna...

Mark VandeWettering 📡42 unique spotters of my pico-WSPRer <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a> beacon so far. Not bad for some tiny number of milliwatts.

Mark VandeWettering 📡Anybody using the pico-WSPRer code? It appears that the frequency generated by it may be off by a couple hundred Hz, which puts it out of band, which may explain why I've gotten relatively few spots (there are definitely other possibilities). Monitoring it with RFSpace SDR-IQ definitely shows it running a bit high, which I didn't think would happen with the GPS conditioning the oscillator. Any ideas? <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/wspr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wspr</a>

Stefan NH6SPPicked up a 10W <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a> signal from SP3RC-26, a balloon flying over the North Pacific Ocean at 41k ft altitude.<a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a>

Fabian Kurz, DJ5CW/SO5CWToday the callsign UK5UAJ caught my attention on 30m <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>. By today's prefix allocations, this would be Uzbekistan, but it actually is the former call of the radio club of "Middle School No 3" in Pripyat, Ukraine (1980 until 1986). The locator given (KO51bj) matches Pripyat (although the school is in KO51aj) and judging by WSPR reception reports and field strengths, it is likely that the transmitter is actually in Ukraine - but probably not in Pripyat. Who knows? <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hamradio</a> <a href="https://social.darc.de/tags/pripyat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pripyat</a>

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