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Re: Topband: Anyone using WSPR or WSPR-X?

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Subject: Re: Topband: Anyone using WSPR or WSPR-X?
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:41:28 -0700
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On Wed,9/3/2014 2:39 AM, Mike Waters wrote:
Yesterday I decoded a Chinese station on 30m WSPR, at a level of -28. From
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/wsprnet/spots:
2014-09-02 21:34  BZ1UIF  10.140268  -28  0  ND81  5  W0BTU  EM37  17566
  158

According to something you said in your interface PDF, the -28 seems to
indicate that I already have a decent sound card (among other things.) What
do you think?

Probably yes, but my testing was JT65, where -22 to -23 is pretty much the lower limit at which signals can be decoded. WSPR uses a more powerful noise reduction protocol that can get deeper into the noise floor. Check the WSPR doc for what that limit is.

73, Jim K9YC
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