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THE WEAK SIGNAL PROPAGATION REPORTER, BETTER KNOWN AS WSPR, WAS DEVELOPED
BY DR. JOE TAYLOR, K1JT, AND OVER THE YEARS IT HAS BECOME THE GOLD STANDARD
FOR EVERYTHING FROM ANTENNA TESTING TO PROPAGATION RESEARCH.  UNLIKE THE
OTHER DIGITAL MODES IN DR. TAYLORS WSJT X SOFTWARE SUITE, WSPR IS STRICTLY
A ONE WAY TRANSMISSION MEDIUM YOU DONT MAKE TWO WAY CONTACTS WITH WSPR.
INSTEAD, A WSPR SIGNAL IS ANALOGOUS TO A BEACON TRANSMISSION.  YOUR STATION
TRANSMITS A WSPR SIGNAL FOR APPROXIMATELY 2 MINUTES, AND RECEIVING STATIONS
DECODE THE INFORMATION AND UPLOAD IT TO AN AGGREGATION SITE AT WWW.
WSPRNET. ORG.  BY LOGGING ONTO WSPRNET, YOU CAN SEE WHO RECEIVED YOUR
SIGNAL, THE SIGNALS STRENGTH AT THE DESTINATION, AND THE DISTANCE BETWEEN
YOUR STATIONS.  WSPRNET CAN DISPLAY THE RESULTS IN A STRAIGHT FORWARD DATA
LIST OR A COLORFUL MAP.  WSPR SIGNALS USE SOPHISTICATED DATA CODING THAT
ALLOWS THEM TO BE DECIPHERABLE AT SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCES, EVEN WHEN
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