Morning Bob,Was off air for a day for in sitio reprogramming & got it back on the air yesterday afternoon. I'm going to get another QRP Labs "Ultimate" Arduino shield and Si5351A DDS with TCXO so I can do reprogramming at home and then drive up to my RV trailer park campsite and swap it out with it's "twin".
I've noticed that our 22 m "1X" beacons are spotted until the week early hours of the morning 2 to 3 am EDT and then once again after local sunset. And, for some bizarre reason, the prefixed"1X" beacons are being spotted at a 75:25 ratio compared to the telemetry beacons that start with "1" plus a mix of encoded alphanumeric characters ("X" in the second character field, in this case, would be used to encode a temperature range of +36 to +38 C).
It's interesting because it doesn't matter when I que up the transmission start time. Statistically, the ratios should skew closer towards 50:50, one would think. The 22 m band certainly doesn't "know" what's being transmitted and in what order, and then fade out or mangle a telemetry beacon more than the prefixed "1X" WSPR beacon! So I'm leaning towards the WSPR decoding software having "bias" of some kind in the encoding and/or decoding. What I do know is that I seem to have more reach using "1X3ROM" as compared to "VA3ROM".
I did a DXplorer comparison with K3SIW and IX3ROM WSPR beacons. Garry is pretty much due south of me at just over 700 km so you would think that he and I should have pretty much identical reception patterns and ranges, all things being equal, one would think. But the graph says otherwise!
Of course, the dataset is way to small to say conclusively as to what is causing the differences.
73,
Robert
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