Return-Path: X-Spam-DCC: paranoid 1102; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on lipkowski.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL, HTML_40_50,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_TITLE_EMPTY,RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD autolearn=no version=3.1.3 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [195.171.43.25]) by paranoid.lipkowski.org (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id t5QLQMUd000432 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:26:23 +0200 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1Z8b5E-0001Nj-70 for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:22:48 +0100 Received: from [195.171.43.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1Z8b5D-0001Na-Mc for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:22:47 +0100 Received: from mx02.posteo.de ([89.146.194.165]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8b5B-0007z8-46 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:22:46 +0100 Received: from dovecot04.posteo.de (unknown [185.67.36.27]) by mx02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A740A25B17F1 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:22:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.posteo.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dovecot04.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3mJB4z2VJSzFpW8 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:22:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <558DC2A1.2040608@posteo.de> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:22:41 +0200 From: DK7FC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <8D27C7D3E7D6748-14A8-F71B3@webmail-vm149.sysops.aol.com> <558D8FEC.2090102@posteo.de> <7D39EA36066C485998744D9E994DAC52@White> In-Reply-To: <7D39EA36066C485998744D9E994DAC52@White> X-Scan-Signature: 350b42a0642244046701ed1a68bf48aa Subject: Re: LF: 476.181 kHz from indoor loop Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070102030302020103040504" 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 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 10.1.3.10 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3535 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070102030302020103040504 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Markus, Really? Wonderful! :-) And the stream is still running. I'll watch it some days now to see if all Raspi problems are gone, then the next part-project is the RX. Meanwhilethe sky wave is present and i can see you quite strong in DFCW-30 with your 3 mW ERP from the loop. I missed watching you on the remote grabber in daytime. What was the SNR ralative to the city location? Same or better? I switched back to the T antenna in the afternoon. It would be interesting so see you on my loop. On 21:19 i switched to the loop! Ah and now you can see the drift of my RX which is quite visible, but still uncritical for QRSS-30 or WSPR. I thought about changing the 12 MHz xtal of the soundcard. It is the cheap SMD xtal which has 100 ppm/K but there are other versions with 30 ppm/K. Maybe an idea, they are no expensive and still compact... 73, Stefan Am 26.06.2015 21:04, schrieb Markus Vester: > Hi Stefan, > good to see the remote station working nicely now. > >> but don't see you > ...yes you do ;-) There is a slight frequency offset in the remote > grabber which had put me out of your QRSS-30 band. I now switched to > my "heritage" QRG 136172.5 ahem 476172.5 Hz, and voila there it is, > loud and clear. > Currently still on the low Marconi, also about 2 mW EMRP. The > relatively strong coupling to the LF grabber E-field antenna produced > some aliases and noise there, which have been mitigated by a 475 kHz > Saugkreis (trap) - same as in old AM radios ;-) > 73, Markus > > *From:* DK7FC > *Sent:* Friday, June 26, 2015 7:46 PM > *To:* rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org > *Subject:* Re: LF: 476.181 kHz from indoor loop > > Hi Markus, > > Thanks for your DFCW-30 transmission. I can see you clearly in daytime > on my RX in the city! However i can't see you on my RX is the garden! > The remote system seems to run stable now, at least for a longer time > then in the last 3 days :-) > http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaefer_vlf/DK7FC_remote_Grabber.html > I switched between a T antenna and a loop beaming 300/120 deg but > don't see you. It appears that the hill between us is (my garden is on > the hill side, the city antenna is more distant to the hill) actually > reducing the SNR. So it also reduces QRN from the east and favours the > west. But i would prefer an omnidirectional pattern :-/ > > 73, Stefan > > Am 24.06.2015 12:11, schrieb Markus Vester: >> I am currently running a DFCW-60 beacon on 476.181 kHz, using >> the same 10m^2 indoor transmit loop as previously on LF. With 35 >> Watts of RF input, estimated radiated power is around 2 >> mW, with lobes pointing west and east. >> The daytime groundwave signal is visible in the bottom panel of the >> DK7FC MF grabber. Going by the CCIR plots for 3 mS/m conductivity, >> the groundwave attenuation for this distance would be about 23 dB in >> excess off lossless 1/r propagation, resulting in approximately 0.2 >> uV/m in Heidelberg. >> Best 73, >> Markus (DF6NM) >> --------------070102030302020103040504 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Markus,

Really? Wonderful! :-) And the stream is still running. I'll watch it some days now to see if all Raspi problems are gone, then the next part-project is the RX.
Meanwhilethe sky wave is present and i can see you quite strong in DFCW-30 with your 3 mW ERP from the loop. I missed watching you on the remote grabber in daytime. What was the SNR ralative to the city location? Same or better? I switched back to the T antenna in the afternoon. It would be interesting so see you on my loop. On 21:19 i switched to the loop!
Ah and now you can see the drift of my RX which is quite visible, but still uncritical for QRSS-30 or WSPR.

I thought about changing the 12 MHz xtal of the soundcard. It is the cheap SMD xtal which has 100 ppm/K but there are other versions with 30 ppm/K. Maybe an idea, they are no expensive and still compact...

73, Stefan

Am 26.06.2015 21:04, schrieb Markus Vester:
Hi Stefan,
 
good to see the remote station working nicely now.
 
>> but don't see you
 
...yes you do ;-) There is a slight frequency offset in the remote grabber which had put me out of your QRSS-30 band. I now switched to my "heritage" QRG 136172.5 ahem 476172.5 Hz, and voila there it is, loud and clear.
 
Currently still on the low Marconi, also about 2 mW EMRP.  The relatively strong coupling to the LF grabber E-field antenna produced some aliases and noise there, which have been mitigated by a 475 kHz Saugkreis (trap) - same as in old AM radios ;-)
 
 73, Markus
 

From: DK7FC
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: LF: 476.181 kHz from indoor loop

Hi Markus,

Thanks for your DFCW-30 transmission. I can see you clearly in daytime on my RX in the city! However i can't see you on my RX is the garden! The remote system seems to run stable now, at least for a longer time then in the last 3 days :-)
http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaefer_vlf/DK7FC_remote_Grabber.html
I switched between a T antenna and a loop beaming 300/120 deg but don't see you. It appears that the hill between us is (my garden is on the hill side, the city antenna is more distant to the hill) actually reducing the SNR. So it also reduces QRN from the east and favours the west. But i would prefer an omnidirectional pattern :-/

73, Stefan

Am 24.06.2015 12:11, schrieb Markus Vester:
I am currently running a DFCW-60 beacon on 476.181 kHz, using the same 10m^2 indoor transmit loop as previously on LF. With 35 Watts of RF input, estimated radiated power is around 2 mW, with lobes pointing west and east.
 
The daytime groundwave signal is visible in the bottom panel of the DK7FC MF grabber. Going by the CCIR plots for 3 mS/m conductivity, the groundwave attenuation for this distance would be about 23 dB in excess off lossless 1/r propagation, resulting in approximately 0.2 uV/m in Heidelberg. 
 
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)

 
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