WSPR: it's finished.

Up until recently, provided you avoided most weekends, operating WSPR without much interference from other modes was regularly possible.

Even when FT8 made its debut, WSPR could continue merrily without issue.

But, since FT4 has joined FT8, and with DXpeditions giving an apparent justification for people to transmit anything they like, wherever they like, and without consideration for any ongoing transmissions, things have deteriorated markedly.

20m has now become all but unusable for WSPR on many days of the week.  This may sound unimportant, but it isn't.  Many people want long time series of WSPR results to investigate daily, seasonal and geomagnetic influences on propagation.  Many of these effects are often only well-known to those who use WSPR regularly.  WSPR can be used by anybody, for free, and without any complex software or equipment.  Everybody, at some point, can potentially make use of WSPR.

I've now largely given up on WSPR surviving anything beyond a few months on 20m, before it becomes so interfered with that it is useless.

In my defence, I have tried to press KJ1T - who never responds, the RSGB, EURAO and so on to bring WSPR under the more protected parts of the bands, such as beacons.  EURAO, in its defence, has at least understood and covered the matter in its newsletters past.  Beacons, in their traditional guise, can be said, in the face of the freely-available and easily used by anyone WSPR, to be all but redundant. 

So I can't see any conflict with putting WSPR - which anyway only needs a tiny segment of each band - in the beacon section.  Can you?

I think I may well try one more time to get WSPR moved.  It's not easy, because many people, even in our representative societies, don't want to listen, mainly as there is no shiny contest award and press coverage to inflate their egos using WSPR.

Maybe you can help, too?