So..
- Station A in North America is calling CQ on 1827.0 and is heard by
Station B in Europe via a webSDR located 50 km away from Station A in
North America.
- Station B in Europe is calling Station A - who is listening via a
webSDR in Europe located 50 km away from Station B
- Both stations exchange 599+ reports and greetings for a fine QSO.
Wow, their signal made it 50 km via the airwaves at both ends and was
then "carried" across the world via the Internet.
What a wonderful Top Band QSO, carried out "the modern way",
embracing new technology.
OMG.
73
Peter SM2CEW
At 06:44 2018-01-16, terry burge wrote:
Well I guess I had to find out what all the fuss was about so I went
on line and tried some of these European webSDR's. Just worked OK2RZ
and YT1AA. Also heard I5ZSS. Using the SDR it's like shooting fish
in the barrel. At least when you plug into the right SDR over there.
They are not going in my log but I did find out it is easy to do.
And I believe it would get so easy the fascination with working the
world would be gone for me. It works but the most of what I got out
of it was how strong the Europeans were 'over there' and how poor my
reception was here in Oregon. Like nil!
So much for that. But before you think there are only a few of those
webSDR's, take another think on that. There apparently are dozens,
maybe hundreds. Don't think they will care what a few of us old Ham
Radio geeks think.
Terry
KI7M
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