Crawley Amateur Radio Club Newsletter

  For those that would like to see a little more of the  CARC 2022 WSPR Competition  analysis I provide below the output of my Python analysis program. Where the file   scrubbed-spots.csv is used, G3YSX, G3YSX/1, M0WID and M6DPW all appear in their own right. where the file  scrubbed-spots-con.csv  is used I have merged the results for G3YSX, and G3YSX/1 into a single entry, and the results for M0WID and M6DPW into a single entry.

Stewart Bryant G3YSX Following on from the successful WSPR competition we ran in 2017 and in memory of Peter Head , G4FYY, who sadly passed away earlier this year, CARC decided that we would run another WSPR event this year.  Peter was a major force in introducing the club to two things: small practical loop antennas,  and  Hans  Summer (G0UPL) WSPR transmitters. Peter took the teachings of club member  Mike G3LHZ on small loops and encouraging many club members to build the simple coax based loop that used the Decca Navigator surplus 75R 10mm coax as both the loop itself and the loop capacitor. More details of this can be found here . A number of club members built this design earlier this year. Peter's original loop as published in the Crawley Newsletter in 2008 is shown here. There was also, at Peter's behest, a CARC club project to build the keenly priced WSPR beacon kits that Hans, G0UPL produces and sells through QRP-Labs...