X-GM-THRID: 1241964589231322729 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.78.172.11 with SMTP id u11cs177290hue; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.183.19 with SMTP id g19mr3250558buf.1184433252277; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f8si9699806nfh.2007.07.14.10.14.07; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1I9l8t-0000au-6T for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:10:51 +0100 Received: from [193.82.59.130] (helo=relay2.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1I9l8s-0000al-Iz for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:10:50 +0100 Received: from sighthound.demon.co.uk ([80.177.174.126]) by relay2.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I9l8r-0007m2-5k for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:10:50 +0100 Received: from lurcher.twatt.local (lurcher.twatt.local [127.0.1.1]) by lurcher.twatt.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96600DA5F5 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:10:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:10:42 +0100 From: John GM4SLV To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Message-ID: <20070714181042.54d12db3@lurcher.twatt.local> In-Reply-To: <8bf118410707140947p1ebde0b6s62de56c3d9b1aba4@mail.gmail.com> References: <002e01c7c631$bd74e400$0300a8c0@lark> <8bf118410707140947p1ebde0b6s62de56c3d9b1aba4@mail.gmail.com> Organization: The Gammy Bird X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: 0.3 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,AWL=0.069,RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP=0.234 Subject: Re: LF: Path to Shetland Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 855 On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:47:41 +0100 "Dave Pick" wrote: > Alan. > > I'll leave the beacon on this evening until bed-time on QRS3 > Frequency is 503.5 and I suggest if John is back from the shops and > wants to run Argo on the frequency, that any other stations snuggle > up nice and close! > > BTW. Who's that swishing around the band? > Hi Dave etc. I'm monitoring now, and will continue to do so all night. I'm looking at 503.5 +/- 50Hz with SpecLab in QRSS-3 mode. I'll leave it running all night. I'll be in or around the shack for the rest of the day until I fall asleep in the chair! Currently seeing something on 503.5, guess it's 'YXM, but not really readable yet. Should be interesting to see what pops in and out as the sky darkens. Now we're nearly a month past the solstice it does get dark between 2300 and 0200 local. Regards, John 'SLV > Dave. > > On 14/07/07, Alan Melia wrote: > > > > Hi Dave (and Dave !) Interesting that there seems little fading but > > I am not > > really surprised, I guess being daylight the lower ionosphere is > > fairly well > > ionised and doing all the reflections. What I would be very > > interested to see on a path of nearly 100km is whether the > > night-time signals suffer significant fading at this range. > > > -- G-GRP-Club 2377, QRP-ARCI 12384, SKCC 3214 Member : RSGB, ARRL Shetland Islands (EU-012) IP90GG Lerwick Radio Club : http://www.gm3zet.org