WSPR on 50 MHz

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I will "box it" in the next few days so that only power and antenna connections are required but will have a DC power switch plus a reset switch for the Pi on the outside.  It looks like it will have to be plastic as the Zero W has an internal WLAN antenna - unfortunately.

Hayden 

WLAN won't work through a metal box  and it needs that for me to SSH into it plus it get NTP timing  corrections  
I have a nice diecast box all ready though.

It is only while transmitting that the broadband noise is present : WSPR carrier is S9+60 on the radio on 50.293 but the 'white' noise off freq (eg 50.110) and on the other HF bands is a minimum of S7 and beyond S9+.  The 3-terminal regulators (x3 : 8V [common to], 6V [PA] & 5V [Pi]) all have stability capacitors fitted so I doubt that they are a contributing factor. 

As a workaround, I have ordered a mini-HDMI and OTG adapter so that I can hard-wire in to it for monitor, USB keyboard and mouse but unless I can get a USB WLAN adapter (via OTG) to work in  lieu of the internal WLAN  then metal boxing is not going to work. At this stage it is not ruled out completely, just unlikely. Don't quite know how long they will take to arrive - late this week perhaps.

I am not going to have much more free time this week, or next, so it will have to wait.

On a different note, WSPRView V1.0.0.10 is being released shortly and the current email support problems should be resolved with it.

Doug