Friday, 18 July 2014

WSPR Station

View of R7

Another view of R7
Latest setup


Previous setup

WSPR station

Softrock RXTX Ensemble (40/30/20m) / Creative SB1090
LDG AT-100ProII autotuner/ Cushcraft R7 vertical @ ground level

WSPR 2.21_r2286 (frequency hopping)/ Meinberg ntp-4.2.6p5/ Windows 7 on a Lenovo T510 laptop

See http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/map

Updates:
Nov 9, 2014
Reconfigured to use WSPR-IQ (WSPR 2.21_r2286).  Frequency hopping during tests, txrx on 20m & 30m and rx on 40m.

Nov 24, 2014
Reconfigured time sync to LAN NTP server just installed..

Jun 12, 2015
Replaced Creative SB1009 with a < $2.00 generic USB sound dongle (purchased through eBay), working nicely at 48 kHz sampling..

Sept 5, 2015
Updated Windows 7 to Windows 10.

SDR Radio Server


Old setup


Comet DS15



Softrock RX Ensemble II/ vertical wire loop antenna/ SB1090 X Fi soundcard
R820T dongle/ Comet DS15 discone antenna (25 to 1500 MHz)

SDR Server version 2.3 1990/ rtl_tcp/ Meinberg ntp-4.2.6p5/ Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio laptop
Username: guest Password: guest

See http://v2.sdrspace.com/
Comments/reports welcome to va7li@shaw.ca.

Updates:
Nov 24, 2014
Reconfigured time sync to LAN NTP server just installed..

May 3, 2015
R820T2 dongle ordered to replace the present R820T as soon as it arrives.

May 26, 2015
Added SB1090 soundcard and updated photo.

June 3, 2015
R820T2 dongle arrived and installed!

July 16, 2015
Service stopped as Sony Vaio acting up! Moving service to a Lenovo ThinkCentre. Service will resume shortly.

July 17, 2015
SDR server back in service, everything the same but now running on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M58p.

July 21, 2015
Installed BOINC and processing SETI@home v7 to maximize computer usage.

Sept 5, 2015
Updated Windows 7 to Windows 10.