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I have two WSPR beacons running, one in Sunnyvale CA and the other in Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel. Both are running 200 mw into EFHW antennas just 6 meters off
by fortran77 2y ago
I have two WSPR beacons running, one in Sunnyvale CA and the other in Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel. Both are running 200 mw into EFHW antennas just 6 meters off the ground. I can routinly pick up the signals between the two sites.
I get signal reports everwhere from a US military base at the South Pole, Australia, and throughout Europe and Asia.
The transmitters are homemade, a Rapsperry Pi Pico, and a small external circuit of a Si5355, a couple of MOSFETS and a lowpass filter -- maybe $30 in parts.
It's fascinating how the amount of electrons needed to light up a few LEDs can be heard around the world when modulated correctly.
- colelyman 2y agoDid you follow plans for your homemade transmitters? Or if not, have you written it up? I would definitely be interested in making some.
- fortran77 2y agoI based it off something similar to this https://blog.marxy.org/2018/12/minimal-wspr-transmit-with-arduino-and.html https://blog.marxy.org/2018/12/minimal-wspr-transmit-with-ar... and moved it to Pico from arduino