Return-Path: Received: from mtain-dg05.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtain-dg05.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.65.13]) by air-me02.mail.aol.com (v127_r1.1) with ESMTP id MAILINME022-8ba54b8a8289ca; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:49:45 -0500 Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mtain-dg05.r1000.mx.aol.com (Internet Inbound) with ESMTP id 08F49380000E0; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:49:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1NlkRj-0005QA-Jj for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:48:39 +0000 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1NlkRj-0005Q1-4F for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:48:39 +0000 Received: from mx.omskcity.com ([79.133.160.2]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NlkRg-0008Ay-Mz for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:48:39 +0000 Received: from noname.nodomain.nowhere (host209.161-133-79.sotline.ru [79.133.161.209]) by mx.omskcity.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o1SEmOrg013524 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:48:26 +0600 (OMST) (envelope-from fitec@omskcity.com) Received: from localhost (fitec@localhost) by noname.nodomain.nowhere (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA00231 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:53:06 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: noname.nodomain.nowhere: fitec owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:53:05 +0000 (GMT) From: "Alexander S. Yurkov" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.8 (mx.omskcity.com [79.133.160.2]); Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:48:28 +0600 (OMST) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,none Subject: Re: LF: Re: 9kHz noise level Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d410d4b8a828773f8 X-AOL-IP: 193.82.116.20 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) MNI TNX Markus. Thus noise level on 9 kHz can be expected abt 1.3*SQRT(1/0.063) = 5.2 uV/m in 1 Hz by this data. Essentually less then Jim mesured. Thus Stefans sigs with 20 kV on kite ANT should be detectable at 100 km (2.5 uV/m) at least in qrss90. Another way of calculation yelds the samilar result: Stefan's power expected abt 1 mW. 1000 times more then your 1 uW. Then distance should be SQRT(1000)=30 times more. 6km * 30 = 180 km. Certanly at 100 km there should be some influence of ionosphere. But seems it is not very strong yet. Besides good fact is that ionosphere should increase sigs not decrease. It is pity Stefan can not radiate today. But let's look forward. On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Markus Vester wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:06:35 +0100 > From: Markus Vester > Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org > To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org > Subject: Re: LF: Re: 9kHz noise level > > Dear Alexander, LF, > > the frequency rulers of the modified Argo are actually correct, and you can see how I reduced the bandwidth when going further away. The minimum setting was 90 second dots, giving 0.042 Hz FFT resolution when running at 4x normal samplerate (ie. 0.063 Hz noise BW) . > > The marginal "T" trace at 6 km was probably no more than 0 dB SNR. Thus the noise level (including spherics) would have been on the order of 15 dBuV/m/sqrtHz. > > Best 73, > Markus, DF6NM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alexander S. Yurkov > To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: LF: Re: 9kHz noise level > > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Markus Vester wrote: > > In April 2003, I attempted to transmitt an 8.97 kHz carrier, radiating > > about 1 microwatt from my normal LF antenna (220 pF at ~ 9m eff. > > height). I drove around and stopped in different places, putting up a 6m > > fishing pole with a wire, connected to a resonant circuit and the laptop > > soundcard. Each time I took a short Spectrogram full-band screenshot, > > along with a narrowband capture from a special Argo version, patched for > > 22 kHz samplerate. An assembly of the screenshots is at > > http://freenet-homepage.de/df6nm/8970_ALL.gif. Maximum detection range > > was 6 km, just marginally outside the reactive nearfield. No > > noiseblanking was attempted at the time. > > Dear Markus, > In what qrss mode (FFT-bandwith) you resived such a signal? P=1uW D=6km > yelds E=1.3uV/m It seems to be usefull to estimate noise level. But we > should normalyze this to bandwith. > > Regards, > Alexander/RA9MB > > > > Regards, Alexander