{"id":3117,"date":"2009-04-30T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/wspring-across-the-mighty-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:35:42","slug":"wspring-across-the-mighty-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/wspring-across-the-mighty-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"WSPRing Across the Mighty Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhc1x6Kd7D4f03VOEhW18pOgLQQsdR7jPOzK0WjPksF9QoA0duJa-aoVTVf8snsV3YWS7FozuKZY1_RTUdf3AFvBiU8Rgg4TQGR6cEkN_odjL5KB3QdENgADOgkbHXzp8ZNeOCdXbXxktI\/s1600-h\/pondcross.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 179px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/pondcross.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330325624733130882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>You have to look carefully, but in the picture above you can see a little green line stretching from Rome to Maine. That&#8217;s my 20 milliwatt WSPR signal crossing the Atlantic. W1CDO&#8217;s receiver picked me up at 0452 UTC yesterday. <\/p>\n<table style=\"font-family: monospace; font-size: 12pt; margin-right: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Date\">Date<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Call\">Call<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=dB\">SNR<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Power\">W<br \/><\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Reporter\">by<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=ReporterGrid\">loc<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Distance\">km<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<th align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/meptspots.php?sort=Distance\">mi<\/a><\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"evenrow\">\n<td align=\"left\"> 2009-04-29 4:52 <\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"> N2CQR <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"> -22 <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"> 0.020 <\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"> W1CDO <\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"> FN43ou <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"> 6541 <\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"> 4064 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The day\/night terminator was in the mid-Atlantic at that time, so I think I had a bit of a tailwind from the gray line! But still, not bad for 20 mw in Maunder Minimum II. K1JT&#8217;s software and W1CDO&#8217;s receive system did the heavy lifting. Antenna here is just an end-fed wire among the buildings of central Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to look carefully, but in the picture above you can see a little green line stretching from Rome to Maine. That&#8217;s my 20 milliwatt WSPR signal crossing the Atlantic. W1CDO&#8217;s receiver picked me up at 0452 UTC yesterday. Date Call SNR W by loc km mi 2009-04-29 4:52 N2CQR -22 0.020 W1CDO FN43ou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/wspring-across-the-mighty-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WSPRing Across the Mighty Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k1jt","category-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}