{"id":9775,"date":"2010-04-14T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/receiver-success-combining-computers-and-homebrew-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:15:40","slug":"receiver-success-combining-computers-and-homebrew-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/receiver-success-combining-computers-and-homebrew-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiver Success! Combining Computers and Homebrew Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1010021-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P1010021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459842186434463474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Well, it turns out that yesterday was a GREAT day for a new receiver. When I got home from work 30 meters was open. I fired up the new receiver and the FLDIGI program. Immediately I started to see and decode PSK-31 signals. I quickly switched over to the WSPR program and right away I could see the little two minute WSPR sigs. Here is what my screen looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screenshot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459844140860203746\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The program also began to automatically upload reports to WSPR HQ. Here is the report I found on the WSPR web site this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-1-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 114px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459844612288296978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I know all this WSPR and digi stuff often seems to be very computer-centric, and very &#8220;appliance radio,&#8221; but I think this little project shows how we can have the best of both worlds: This rig combines a laptop computer and some pretty sophisticated software with a VERY simple, discrete component, homebrew direct-conversion receiver.<\/p>\n<p>OK. So you see that I left a lot of space on the PC board. That&#8217;s where the DSB transmitter (for WSPR and possibly PSK-31) will go.<\/p>\n<p>BTW: You can keep an eye on my reception reports by going to the Database section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wsprnet.org\/drupal\/wsprnet\/spots\">WSPRnet site<\/a> and plugging my call (I0\/N2CQR) into the &#8220;reporting station&#8221; block. I&#8217;ll leave the receiver on today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that yesterday was a GREAT day for a new receiver. When I got home from work 30 meters was open. I fired up the new receiver and the FLDIGI program. Immediately I started to see and decode PSK-31 signals. I quickly switched over to the WSPR program and right away I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/receiver-success-combining-computers-and-homebrew-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Receiver Success! Combining Computers and Homebrew Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimalist-computing","category-wspr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","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=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}