Hello Horst, I live in a very noisy sub-urban area too (in JN53EM).= Lots of power lines, a motorway, a railway and tens of small factories ar= e around here just within a few hundreds meters. I attach a broadband capt= ure I did some days ago over > 12 hours just to give you an idea of the= hum level at my QTH :-)

Nevertheless, I managed to have a fairly good reception of= first Stefan's 8970Hz tx today. For this reception I used a very simple-t= o-build loop design from Renato Romero and Marco Bruno (http://www.vlf.it/easyloop/_easyloop.ht= m). Please consider that my loop sits simply on my balcony on the 5th= floor of a 6-floors tall building, with a nicely open view towards the se= a, from south-west to north. It is only a few meters from home mains, PC,= TV, etc..

I think that some hum reduction (which happens in the morning),= great quality of Stefan's signal and digital processing in SpecLab all pl= ay a decisive role. For SpecLab, I attach here the USR files that I= used today for 8970 and 6470, they were kindly sent to me by Stefan and= I found there has been a great improvement in signal readability at 8970,= compared with my previous reception (during 7th experiment) in fairly sim= ilar conditions.

With my best whishes for a good reception on next trasmission ex= periment :-)

Best regards

Daniele

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From: Horst Stöcker= <horst.stoecker@web.de>
= To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 7:11:21 PM
Subject: VLF: here no results= from DK7FC's 8th experiment

Hello all, con= grats to Stefan and all who had success in receiving his signals.
I= had no success in receiving Stefans tests. This time I used a mini whip= with my IBM laptop soundcard. Normally this is a real step forward in my= RX setup for VLF. The one I got from Roloef (many thanks) is optimized fo= r VLF reception. Much better than any antenna I tested before. All three= Alphas are well vissible. But obviously the noise level is to high here= at my home QTH, indeed. I supposed that before. Now I know.
I do not= think that I can find a better position for the antenna. It's now about= 8 m above ground, mounted in a 2m PVC tube on an old chimney.
So I= can find just one conclusion: All of you who could reveive Stefans transm= issions must be living more or less on the countryside. Or should it be th= at I have the pity to live in such a noisy urban environment?
Next ti= me I will have to go to the countryside, too.
Looking forward to SAQ= tomorrow. I received SAQ many times and this time with the mini whip it= will be easyer then ever.
vy73 Horst DO1KHS/DI2AN
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