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Content preview: Thanks Joe, Well , its starting to make Gary's OP8 trip , with 250/300 watts to a 40ft parasol , all the more amazing , I think G8HUH was sending last night , but may be the noise is taking its toll , Op is reasonably immure to impulse noise , but wide band will cause problems , [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [80.12.242.59 listed in list.dnswl.org] X-Scan-Signature: 84016abdd353c82964b6d256164a353f Subject: Re: LF: OP32 136K TA Opportunity tonight Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response 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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME 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: 3039ac1d40ca515dde316306 X-AOL-IP: 195.171.43.25 X-AOL-SPF: domain : blacksheep.org SPF : none Thanks Joe, Well , its starting to make Gary's OP8 trip , with 250/300 watts to a 40ft parasol , all the more amazing , I think G8HUH was sending last night , but may be the noise is taking its toll , Op is reasonably immure to impulse noise , but wide band will cause problems , That sounds like , some form of switch mode control device ? my 'big' switch mode 50v psu has a wandering band of noise , which , so far , has stayed on 502 K and followed the station LF ..yet Sure a lot of stations would be looking for you on 136 , next time ! 73 -G. -------------------------------------------------- From: Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:18 AM To: Subject: Re: LF: OP32 136K TA Opportunity tonight > Hello Graham and others on the group. > > No Opera decodes have been received here for the past 2 nights, > unfortunately. > > The noise starts at about 6:45 daylight savings time and ends > 12 hours later. Before the clocks advanced, it started 5:45. > It sounds like very strong 60 Hz buzz with changing harmonic content > that presents in bands about 40 kHz wide every 100-200 kiHz. > It is very strong near the power lines about 400m from the shack. > > > The discussion on 4mm litz by Markus has been most interesting. > I several 25 metre lengths and by patiently winding three of them > into flat pies and stacking them about 1 cm apart, managed to get > about 2 mH. The idea of pies came from G3NYK and before getting > distracted, I attempted to measure the Q using a M0BMU procedure. > > I hope to get back to TX on 137 kHz soon and thank all those who > operate the grabbers which are very helpful for monitoring. > > Thanks also to Markus for his strong Op sig and those others > who tried the past few nights. > > 73 > Joe VO1NA > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Graham wrote: > >> Yes , with 3 and 6 dB over the limit as well >> >> Pity on the noise , I'm sure the other station's would not of >> been that far behind , is it wide band or pulsed ? >> >> 73 -G, >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: >> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 9:00 PM >> To: >> Subject: Re: LF: OP32 136K TA Opportunity tonight >> >>> HI Graham, >>> >>> It was good to see Markus callsign on the screen. The RX is running >>> again >>> tonight and my sentiments concerning the mains problem have been clearly >>> voiced to those concerned! >>> >>> 73 >>> Joe >>> >>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Graham wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks' for that Joe, >>>> >>>> Hopefully a few more nights before the summer sets in !, pity >>>> about the mains noise , seems to be a problem that's becoming >>>> all to wide spread these days .. >>>> >>>> 73-Graham >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: >>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 2:16 PM >>>> To: >>>> Subject: Re: LF: OP32 136K TA Opportunity tonight >>>> >>>>> Dear Group, >>>>> >>>>> Despite very high mains noise levels there were 2 Op32 receptions >>>>> of DF6NM at 0000 and 0449 at -37 and -35 dB respectively. >>>>> >>>>> 73 >>>>> Joe VO1NA >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Graham wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> OP32 136K TA Opportunity tonight >>>>>> >>>>>> Joe VO1NA will be monitoring 136.00 K tonight for OP32 >>>>>> >>>>>> Good luck all >>>>>> >>>>>> 73-Graham >>>>> >>>>> This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions >>>>> at >>>>> http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at >>> http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php >>> >> >> > > This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at > http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php >