Hello N1BUG,
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Script? Would you consider sharing it please Paul? I spotted you
between my LF WSPR2 TX's last night but I do not think they all made
it to WSPRnet... What seems to happen is if the server cannot be
reached during the following receive period it is "thrown away".
Good to see you back and very powerful on LF, you are doing a
remarkable job again this season!
Best regards,
Chris 2E0ILY mailto:chris@...
N> Sorry, I can no longer resist jumping in here with my thoughts. To
N> make this somewhat on topic, my U3S is such a wonderful WSPR beacon!
N> It's running on LF right now. :-)
N> Running WSPR on LF overnight it is very obvious WSPRnet has rejected
N> many attempted spot uploads. On LF there are certain stations I know
N> for a fact decode me every period but often spots from those
N> stations didn't make it into the WSPRnet system. This always
N> coincides with times when the WSPRnet web site is extremely sluggish
N> or won't load at all. For a while last year I uploaded spots via a
N> different method, using a script. This allowed me to see when
N> uploads failed due to server timeouts, which was shockingly often.
N> The volume of spots processed by WSPRnet is a fraction of that
N> handled by PSK Reporter which doesn't seem to be having any issues.
N> I agree the usefulness of WSPR is declining due to these problems
N> with WSPRnet. This affects LF operators like myself deeply. We might
N> get just one spot from a given station or country once in a night,
N> once in a month, once in a year... but that one can be among those
N> WSPRnet rejects during its times of struggle. If you are actually
N> using WSPR to study propagation, missing data can be a real problem.
N> I don't think the intent of WSPR was only to see if propagation
N> supports a QSO, but... On LF we are using QSO modes which equal and
N> surpass the decoding capabilities of WSPR:
N>
N> Perhaps if there were a large enough volume of requests to the
N> WSPRnet admins, this problem would be addressed. Just a wild
N> thought. There is some interesting and revealing insight in the
N> WSPRnet forums for those willing to dig deep enough to find it.
N> 73,
N> Paul N1BUG
N>
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Best regards, Chris Wilson (2E0ILY)
