Illigal Dutch 60m transmissions & challenge results

Have been on receive 60m with the FT-817 and horizontal loop. Really good results.

Number of unique spots

Total distance chart

Notice neighbourstation PA0O ends higher in the chart. Why? Because of this:

Jaap received 2 spots from ZS6SRL I didn't spot. That and 3 spots more from ZS4ARV. However I spotted ZS6KTS 2 times instead of 1 by PA0O. But total distance counts, not the amount of spots for this part of the challenge.

When attending the shack this morning I unplugged the laptop. I immidiatly noticed Dutch calls on 60m WSPR. PE1BVQ was spotted already yesterday, I'm shure it was a mistake from Hans and I only spotted him once. But PA7MEM was spotted 5 times and PE1CMT 22 times. Not shure if they are aware that they are making illigal transmissions? The 60m WSPR frequency is outside our band allocation!

30m results in the WSPR challenge

This are the results from PE1ITR´s WSPR challenge page. Monitored 30m with my horizontal loop monday 1-Feb. Immidiatly notice a high place again and a place in the distance chart.

Number of unique spots

Total distance

It is clear that receive is a lot better on the loop especially from very weak signals. At the moment I'm monitoring 60m. So far 15 unique spots were made. Although tomorrows numbers in the chart could be lower as I was monitoring earlier then the actual time the data is taken from the site.

Please notice, Dutch stations are NOT allowed to transmit on the 60m WSPR frequency!

A possible nr. 80

I went back on 30m WSPR receive with the horizontal loop today. After some disappointing days with the vertical I want to see if I end higher in the WSPR challenge charts. I already see a total of 104 unique spots since 0:02 UTC today. I also see that a lot of milliwatt stations are spotted. DK6UG and ZL1RS did spot 168 unique stations yesterday. It is obvious we in Europe will never end high in the distance charts as most of the spots are nearby compared to what they spot in ZL, ZS and VK. DK6UG for example has only 15th place even with the top amount of unique spots.

A possible WSPR DXCC nr. 80 showed up this early morning. I need to get the laptop to transmit a WSPR signal for that to get it. But it will not be a easy task. I received his 5W signal with extraordinairy low signals. C91PM is located in Mozambique, Africa.

In the mean time I continue my 100 DXCC in 100 days QRP challenge. I'm at 52 now working Japan on 15m. That was not easy, despite very strong signals from Japan from at least 4 or 5 stations. But finally JA5BDZ did copy my signal and we made the QSO.

The plan for tomorrow is to move WSPR receive to 60m for a change. Curious how that's working out.