Last night I was alerted by Gus VO1MP of some new SDR websites in Europe .
Check HB9FX: http://hb9fx-websdr.dyndns.org/ and also a seven rx site in Trent
at: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
It was facinating to listen to 160M from a receiver based in Europe.
Tremendously strong sigs in the PC speaker. I called CQ on 1815 and worked a
few Eu stations by listening to their signals on the European SDR not on my
shack rx. The guys I worked were good copy on my K9AY and FT1KMP but I just
turned down the AF gain. I could also hear my own signal coming back through
the SDR even though I could only see the faintest of lines on the waterfall
display. Surprising to me were the many NA stations very strong with me not
being heard on the Eu SDR. Don't know yet what kind of antennas are being used
over there.
This may be old news to many but check it out!
73 Frank VO1HP _______________________________________________
"160-meters is a band for men, not for sissies!" - SM5EDX
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