rrobinet

Sorry that I missed the questions in this thread, but I have been dealing with the aftermath of the Northern California extended power outage at KPH.

The optional DEFAULT and following band-specific parameters affect only the noise level and noise graphs. If present, they are comma-separated 'BAND:ADJ" pairs with 'DEFAULT:ADJ' (which should be first) applied to bands for which there is no 'BAND:ADJ' definition.

They are there to allow you to adjust the noise level reports for any gain or loss in the transmission system.
For example, if you have a +20 dB LNA ahead of your Kiwi, then 'DEFAULT:-20' should be added to your Kiwi's receiver definition line. DEFAULT:0 adds 0 dB to your measurements, so it will have no effect on your reported noise levels.

I support band-specific adjustments, since at many (if not most sites) there will be elements in the RF transmission chain which change the gain by frequency.
Get at $50 NanoVNA and check out your rx system from antenna feed point to the Kiwi's SMA input. You may be surprised.

No problem. It works now and I appreciate your quick response.

what Linux system are you running on? Apparently curl isn't part of your distro.
Execute 'sudo apt-get install curl' to get it.

what Linux system are you running on? Apparently curl isn't part of your distro.
Execute 'sudo apt-get install curl' to get it.

that kill line will generate that error printout as it kills itself, but it always kills all other WD tasks before printing the error.
you should have no problem changing conf files as long as you -z with the same conf file as you -a

WD logs to ~/wsprdaemon/watchdog.log. so "tail -f watchdog.log" to see error printouts.
For more logging verbosity, start WD with '-v -a', or for even more '-vv -a'

I have posted the latest release V2.5a to https://github.com/rrobinett/wsprdaemon
Clint KA7OEI's blogspot installation instructions are for a much earlier version which required much more manual tweaking.
Still, installation and configuration requires some familiarity with Linux command line tools
I will add installation instructions on the github page.

Your spots will have no effect on other stations.
Uniques are the number of different call signs you have detected and has no direct relationship with reports from other WSPR listeners

I would VNC to the Pi and edit control WD from that session.
Changing the conf of a running WD session will work most of the time. But if your changes remove a running RECEIVER, then WD will no longer know how to shut it down.

Your question is not clear to me. You can of course download the RP microSD image and burn it to a microSD card before your RPi arrives. Bur installing and configuring WD must be done on a running RP, although you don't need a Kiwi to install and configure WD.

Thanks to all of you on this thread I have been able to change all of my wired LAN connections to Wifi and remove one major source of crud.

I am using the $4.50 Zibo dongle from Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RBBUQLE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I upgraded to the latest kernel and installed the driver packages and modified the file to make it come up as wan0.
No compiling was required.

Once you are rid of the LAN crud, if you are at a quiet site you may benefit from a preamp ahead of the Kiwi. I use a DXE Clifton modified to stop it from oscillating and can detect the noise from the black hole at the center of our Milky Way on 17M and above.