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From: "Jack" <jwaskew@telus.net>
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:35:01 -0700
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Subject: LF: Re: Re: JA's NI and GM into AK (and VE7 Im sure!)
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Wow...I'm impressed...maybe depressed ;(
I'm still not seeing NI, but it's no wonder with over 60 dB of noise to 
contend with...HA.   I've been struggling with the 20/S9 noise problem for 
so long now, I'm trying to make any sense as to whether to continue on with 
this insane problem.  The notion that's it's going to go away by itself is 
only a whimsical dream.  It's no wonder I can't see the NI station, let 
alone even have a two way contact with VE7BDQ with noise like this!    If I 
thought it was going to be this bad, I think I would have had second 
thoughts of spending that much money on a R75 receiver just for LF.  I know 
this receiver is known to be really hot for LF, I just find it hard to 
believe there is that much difference between my Icom 740 and transverter 
and the R75 as far as sensitivity to "natural" background noise.  I'm 
talking about a difference of going from <S1 noise to 20/S9 noise level, 
that's a ~68 dB increase!   It's hard to compare the two since one is on the 
mini-whip..the mini-whip is no hell for receiving either even after the 
mods.






> Both of these guys have been putting in good signals this month...it will 
> be
> interesting to see how loud they get in the fall.....it appears that the
> JA-VE7 path is much more forgiving than the brutal haul to down-under.
>
> JA7NI was actually dog-boning for the first time here this morning.
>
> Steve / 73
>
> WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook":  http://members.shaw.ca/ve7sl
>


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