Graham, G3ZOD, sent me this WSPR screen-shot. He writes:
Hi Bill. Thought you might be interested in a screen grab of yourself. You're the near continuous signal along the centre of the waterfall just below 200 on the vertical axis.Not DX from Italy to England, but I'm using an indoor wire antenna and I usually receive you for short periods only - never seen such a consistent signal before. By the way: I think your computer clock may be a couple of seconds off according to the DT values; I have mine resync every 6 hours and my clock is generally within 150 milliseconds.
73 de Graham G3ZOD
Thanks Graham! The consistency of my signal is no doubt due to the fact that I have no receive system here yet, so on the WSPR software, in the "T/R Cycle" box I had "TX" checked. So I was "key down" most of the time. Your screen shot made me realize that this might not be the most neighborly thing to do -- someone else on the same freq might be QRMd by my 20 mW DSB sig. So I think I'll ratchet down the T/R cycle here.
My computer clock is erratic. I have to tweak it each day. I know there is a program out there that automates this -- haven't gotten to that yet. 73 From Rome
You can keep your peecee on time with little fuss by using NTP if you have an Internet connection. Linux can run a server process called ntpd that gets updates from other NTP servers on the Internet that use atomic clocks, GPS or even GSM modems to keep in sync. Even Windows has a NTP client to keep in time sync. If you have a Linux server at home or in the shack, get it to sync up to the NTP servers on the Internet and have your Windows client sync from your Linux server.
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