Return-Path: X-Spam-DCC: paranoid 1233; 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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL, HTML_50_60,HTML_MESSAGE,RATWARE_GECKO_BUILD,SPF_PASS 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 u638S5tJ026871 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 10:28:06 +0200 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1bJccm-0003ed-9S for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:19:32 +0100 Received: from [195.171.43.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1bJccl-0003eU-A2 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:19:31 +0100 Received: from smtp-out-4.talktalk.net ([62.24.135.68]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1bJcci-0001ur-Sh for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:19:30 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([78.150.117.87]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id JcchbS8olcpskJcchbdoYK; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:19:28 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [78.150.117.87] X-Spam: 0 X-OAuthority: v=2.2 cv=ILRAMUnG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=ZvN4j/Cd+chlM7b/5HDnAA==:117 a=ZvN4j/Cd+chlM7b/5HDnAA==:17 a=r77TgQKjGQsHNAKrUKIA:9 a=nN7BH9HXAAAA:8 a=_6GpL_ENAAAA:8 a=uFKSy4CjEJVTSnRZlgYA:9 a=wygtsRLyp0gA:10 a=3oc9M9_CAAAA:8 a=NMhXTQJ7IiDb_eKsvhoA:9 a=pPIYnwtjAhMWU1mw:21 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=wQf5WvvPLwzY6UdiLRIz:22 a=HPItUfg3-W5T9FFxMdBG:22 a=WQP3B-o2DcFb_-ao3AbR:22 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org References: <155ad9e5c3f-7470-a9c3@webprd-m69.mail.aol.com> From: g3zjo Message-ID: <644916ce-7084-3ede-49ea-41c3ad285f39@psk31.plus.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 09:19:29 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <155ad9e5c3f-7470-a9c3@webprd-m69.mail.aol.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 160629-1, 29/06/2016), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfMQ4fH++Alb305DdigwZul28PxvdDCieNZfNU8FKzjtX7IHxmX7sCklzYFX2wKWiXkwdpBW7DdENu0WYzhsfysxoXcnAkP3l5O0A3Xupo8QZiQe8/9mS DZgxyVB9TwnUz4HJiol8S3YKSeAQ6U1rpSRyfFrBwdGJmByyEzwM0iyC59lQZsv7QTvfn+XPX1vfxQ== X-Scan-Signature: b42857a5fad6e32377447282c21f62b1 Subject: Re: Summertime VLF: 8270.0025 Friday, Sunday Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------90D5F7ACE2FAE249D6C0C010" 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 10.1.3.11 Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 8319 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------90D5F7ACE2FAE249D6C0C010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Markus I have my grabber on for you 6000 424 uHz Window. http://www.g3zjo.talktalk.net/vlfgrabber.htm 73 Eddie G3ZJO On 02/07/2016 22:58, Markus Vester wrote: > Yesterday (July 1st) I attempted to improve the cooling and to reduce > the acoustical emission from my VLF loading coil. A large 12 volt fan > was placed above the top of the coil, powered directly by the > rectified antenna current. The high voltage and electric fields at the > motor did not seem affect the electronic commutation. To reduce heat > buildup inside the enclosure, the inner wall of the lower blue bucket > was lined with a coil made of thin polyethylene tube, which was > manually fed with cooling water by swapping the upper and lower > canisters from time to time. Finally the remaining narrow slot > between the two outer buckets was tightly sealed with tape, which > indeed attenuated the annoying coil beep very significantly. > > Then I ran a carrier on 8270.0025 from 11 to 15:30 > UT. Unfortunately at that time, the QRN was already quite strong, > preventing a detection in the 424 uHz grabber windows of DK7FC and > OK2BVG. But after the long transmission, a couple of promising > brighter pixels did show up at the right place in the 47 uHz > instances of in Heidelberg, and probably also in Cumiana at IK1QFK. > > Today's weather was not favourable but we expect better conditions > tomorrow morning. So if all goes well, I will try to repeat the > carrier transmission on *Sunday morning 6 to 11 UT* (July 3rd, > overlapping with SAQ), hopefully in lower background noise. Tomorrow's > goal would be clearer detection in Cumiana, but of course I'd also > very much appreciate possible detections from anyone anywhere else. I > will also try to send more EbNaut later but not tomorrow. > > BTW I have also reactivated my slow VLF grabber windows on the > permanent "summer antenna" (a passive E-field probe in the garden), > which is permanently serving the 137 kHz and Loran-C Receivers. On > LF it is somewhat plagued by ADSL and powerline pickup, but the QRM > situation may be different at 8.27 kHz. I actually need some > amateur signals to find out how good it is ;-). > > All the best, > Markus (DF6NM) > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --------------90D5F7ACE2FAE249D6C0C010 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Hi Markus

I have my grabber on for you 6000 424 uHz Window.

http://www.g3zjo.talktalk.net/vlfgrabber.htm

73 Eddie G3ZJO


On 02/07/2016 22:58, Markus Vester wrote:
Yesterday (July 1st) I attempted to improve the cooling and to reduce the acoustical emission from my VLF loading coil. A large 12 volt fan was placed above the top of the coil, powered directly by the rectified antenna current. The high voltage and electric fields at the motor did not seem affect the electronic commutation. To reduce heat buildup inside the enclosure, the inner wall of the lower blue bucket was lined with a coil made of thin polyethylene tube, which was manually fed with cooling water by swapping the upper and lower canisters from time to time. Finally the remaining narrow slot between the two outer buckets was tightly sealed with tape, which indeed attenuated the annoying coil beep very significantly. 

Then I ran a carrier on 8270.0025 from 11 to 15:30 UT. Unfortunately at that time, the QRN was already quite strong, preventing a detection in the 424 uHz grabber windows of DK7FC and OK2BVG. But after the long transmission, a couple of promising brighter pixels did show up at the right place in the 47 uHz instances of in Heidelberg, and probably also in Cumiana at IK1QFK.

Today's weather was not favourable but we expect better conditions tomorrow morning. So if all goes well, I will try to repeat the carrier transmission on Sunday morning 6 to 11 UT (July 3rd, overlapping with SAQ), hopefully in lower background noise. Tomorrow's goal would be clearer detection in Cumiana, but of course I'd also very much appreciate possible detections from anyone anywhere else. I will also try to send more EbNaut later but not tomorrow.

BTW I have also reactivated my slow VLF grabber windows on the permanent "summer antenna" (a passive E-field probe in the garden), which  is permanently serving the 137 kHz and Loran-C Receivers. On LF it is somewhat plagued by ADSL and powerline pickup, but the QRM situation may be different at 8.27 kHz. I actually need some amateur signals to find out how good it is ;-).

All the best,
Markus (DF6NM)  



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