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From: "Alan Melia" <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
To: "rsgb_lf_group" <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Subject: LF: DX Cluster spots for 16th/17th Oct at GB7DXM
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:09:36 +0100
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Hi all, the Cluster seems to be working ok again, but it was very slow
access
for me during the day.
Stations heard on Saturday G3XDV and DK8KW on QRS cw early and in the
afternoon G3XTZ working DK8KW. At normal speed G4GVC working EI0CF I could
see the trace for Finbar but just could not read him. G3XDV, G3XTZ, DK8KW
G3KEV, GW4ALG, G6RO, G3BMQ. Is someone running a beacon on 137.375 or do I
have to go 'birdie hunting'? That lot was in between busts of my local QRM.

On Sunday, G3XDV and I think Geri DK8KW calling IK5ZPV on QRS, and ON7YD
working DL8ZR. I don't know whether someone's tx expired  but at one stage
I copied a weak 'IK5E' then nothing. I am sure I heard PA2NJN later on but
its not on my record, though there is a 'gram file on disk. The band seemed
quite quiet, the 'crunches' at my end not being too intrusive.

Rik was asking about early morning propagation to Sweden during the week.
This prompted me to look at Geoclock. It would seem that both ends of the
path are in darkness until about 0600z. There may be some interesting
enhancements as the sun rises, but before the absorbtion starts to increase.

Thanks to Stewart G3YSX, we have found a program that will automatically
record at .wav file at a requested time and date. I don't need get up before
lunch time at weekends now!! The only draw back is it records at full
resolution 22k samples/sec, and in mono uses at least 90Mbyte/hour. I had
130meg left on that disk and it crashed on a 90min run.....so I will
have to put a bigger disk in my machine. As disks are cheap now this seems
a handy way of going back and 'reprocessing' a signal with different
filters, or different Spectrogram parameters
.
I was wrong Stewart the program isn't emasculated and is very friendly to
install and run. There is also a tone generator available in the suite with
the ability to produce sine square or triangle wave tones with impulse and
white noise as well.....quite useful. If you are interested, try
http://www.nch.com.au/action/index.htm

This weeks Cluster spots, with the duplicate entries and misposts , and
States-side 160m spots (!) edited out.
G3NYK de GB7DXM   17-Oct 2040Z >
   136.8  OE5PGL      17-Oct-1999 0825Z  429 cq
<DL1SAN-1>
   136.7  DL3FDO      17-Oct-1999 0819Z  549
<DL1SAN-1>
   137.1  DJ1ZB       17-Oct-1999 0810Z  529
<DL1SAN-1>
   137.3  DJ1RL       17-Oct-1999 0808Z  cq 539 in jn48wl
<DL1SAN-1>
   136.0  DL0XYZ      13-Oct-1999 1848Z  testspot
<DL7HG-9>
   136.6  I5MXX       11-Oct-1999 2053Z  cq  (539)
<DJ5BV>
   136.8  G3KEV       11-Oct-1999 1745Z  cq (549 fb)
<DJ5BV>
   136.5  DJ6FU       11-Oct-1999 1707Z  cq
<DH9YAX>
G3NYK de GB7DXM   17-Oct 2044Z >
  1800.0  DF6NM       17-Oct-1999 0904Z  [137kHz] CQ Visual-CW
<OK1FIG>
  1800.0  DJ1RL       17-Oct-1999 0837Z  137.0  559 in JN48SS
<DK7SU>
  1800.0  DL3FDO      17-Oct-1999 0827Z   136.7 449
<DL1DA>
  1800.0  DK8KW       17-Oct-1999 0825Z  [137kHz]  called IK5ZPV
<OK1FIG>
  1800.0  IK5ZPV      17-Oct-1999 0824Z  [137kHz] CQ on Visual-CW
<OK1FIG>
  1800.0  DJ6FU       11-Oct-1999 1707Z  549 on 136.4
<OZ7YY>
G3NYK de GB7DXM   17-Oct 2046Z >

Cheers de Alan G3NYK
Alan.Melia@btinternet.com