{"id":1577,"date":"2010-12-14T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/immediate-gratification-wspr-shows-results-very-fast\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:47:23","slug":"immediate-gratification-wspr-shows-results-very-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/immediate-gratification-wspr-shows-results-very-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Immediate Gratification: WSPR shows results very fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/WSPRmap.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 174px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/WSPRmap.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550489724536307298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">So you build or modify a rig and you put up a new antenna and you then spend some time wondering if you&#8217;re really &#8220;getting out,&#8221; right? Well, wonder no more my friends! WSPR provides almost instant feedback on your work! Here is what the display looked like for my station a short time after I connected my modified transceiver to my new 30 meter dipole. Pond crossings were rare events before. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In my last post I asked if there were others running homebrew gear on WSPR. I am not alone! Paul, M0XPD, has put together a rig far more sophisticated than mine. Paul writes: <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">You ask if there are any others running h\/b in WSPR&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">My 50mW multi-mode beacon runs WSPR, DFCW and S\/MT Hell on a 10-minute, frequency-hopping cycle. <\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">It is entirely stand-alone &#8211; severing the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1292324381_0\">umbilical cord<\/span> to the PC gave me a really good feeling!<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;m currently working on a set of filters (BP and LP) to allow me to run on other bands (currently I&#8217;m on 30m).<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Description on my blog: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/m0xpd.blogspot.com\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1292324381_1\">http:\/\/m0xpd.blogspot.com<\/span><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you build or modify a rig and you put up a new antenna and you then spend some time wondering if you&#8217;re really &#8220;getting out,&#8221; right? Well, wonder no more my friends! WSPR provides almost instant feedback on your work! Here is what the display looked like for my station a short time after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/immediate-gratification-wspr-shows-results-very-fast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Immediate Gratification: WSPR shows results very fast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}