Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:15:48 +0200
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From: Rik Strobbe <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>
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Subject: Re: LF: 500kHz - OR7T QSO
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Hello John,

thanks for the QSO. Due to rather strong QRN copy was only Q4. But I 
was happy to notice any activity on 500kc at last. Apart from the 
beacons there seems to be almost no activity.
Your grabber is a very good tool to check +1000km propagation. I can 
see my signal every evening running full power (abt 300W) and very 
often running my tuning power (25W). Based on the color I produce on 
the grabber I have a pretty good idea about propagation.

I have been thinking about a way to move the cursor over the 
screenshot and read the signalstrength (in dB) but so far I haven't 
found a way to do that in javascript (ie to.retrieve the color of a 
certain pixel)

73, Rik  ON7YD

At 23:47 22/09/2008, you wrote:
>Rik, LF,
>
>Thanks for the QSO Rik. I called CQ and was surprised to hear (or see
>on the grabber first!) someone calling, off my frequency. The grabber
>is great for that! A quick retune of the RX and there you were.
>
>Your signal was good, even in a wide 2.4kHz filter, despite the QRN and
>QSB. There's a short clip of the full recording at :
>http://www.gm4slv.org.uk/sounds.htm
>
>I left the RX tuned to you, so my "sidetone" is rather high-pitched!
>
>Thanks for this season's best 2 way 500kHz DX, 1102km.
>
>John
>GM4SLV
>IP90GG
>Shetland


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