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If anybody has any estimates (or measurements) of the increase in signal strength to be expected in the following areas they would be of considerable interest to the cave radio fraternity: South Wales, Derbyshire (Peak District), the far west and north west of Yorkshire (the area where they sometimes have Lancashire postcodes!!).

John G3PAI
Cave Radio & Electronics Group

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On 22/06/2005 at 08:17 Walter Blanchard wrote:

>Markus,
>Yes, saw it myself this time. It only added about 4 dB amplitude in a 10
>kHz bw and I couldn't see much difference in sidebands at 137 kHz.
>Rugby and Lessay are very roughly the same distance from me.
>You might have a look at relative amplitudes - I haven't got a working
>Loran-C rx at the moment.
>Will have another look today.
>Walter G3JKV.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: MarkusVester@aol.com 
>  To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org 
>  Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:28 PM
>  Subject: LF: LORAN Rugby testing again
>
>
>  Dear Group,
>
>  a second LORAN-C transmission from Rugby (GRI 6731-Y, 27.3 ms delay)
>occured today between about 8:30 and 16:10 UT.
>
>  Sorry for the a posteriori reporting - I suppose real-time uploads of
>LORAN traces might be more useful, but the second computer used for
>monitoring on 100 kHz currently cannot be connected to the internet. The
>corresponding lines on the LF screengrabber (eg 135923.340 Hz, mostly from
>Sylt) did not show any significant change, but at a distance of 923 km not
>much effect would be expected here.
>
>  73 and best wishes
>
>  Markus, DF6NM