Using WSPR to evaluate your station

WA2ZKD

Perhaps one way to assess how well your system hears is to assign one channel to a wspr band. After 24 hours, go to wsprnet.org and see how many spots you sent. You can do the same with logs in the kiwi but I find wsprnet to be a cleaner quicker way. 40 and 20 are good bands to get a feel for it. For my station, I log about 2000 40M spots and 600 20M per 24 hours with the current conditions. That might be a baseline for stations in North America.

Powernumpty

Also http://mardie4.100webspace.net/ and http://wspr.pe1itr.com/index.php.
That's were I found my "old bicycle wheels resting on a fence" was better than quite a few stations (literally laughed out loud).
I avoid 20 here due to too many "proper" stations with real aerials and 40m due to local QRM peaking there when it is happening.

W1EUJ

Awesome idea. Is that count unique calls or all spots reported?

WA2ZKD

all spots

W1EUJ

Well, I must be doing pretty well! 20 Meter all spot totalled 2100 in 12 hours.

WA2ZKD

Of course it is very dependent on condx, today I did 1000 on 20M in 12 hours