From: Roman <rw3adb@YANDEX.ru>
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:58:11 +0300
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Subject: Re: ULF/VLF: amateur stair case / carrier transmissions
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Guten morgen Genosse Funkamateur Stefan!

Congrats with your success!

Let us to know more details about drone antenna?
We are discuss about that way in 2011 on 136.su forum.
Very interesting!

73!
Roman

> Hi all,
> 
> Today, some 20 minute long carrier transmissions were drone from JN39WI
> again. The main intention was to calibrate my local RDF spectrogram
> (still to be done) in the range below 16.4 kHz (JXN) and above 82 Hz
> (ZEVS). So that was a amateur radio ULF/VLF staircase somehow, despite
> the weak signal strength relative to commercial transmitters.
> 
> It was a hot day! Far > 30 C here. I started early in the morning and
> enjoyed the fresh air in the forest.
> 
> The DC resistance of the 1130m ground loop increased to 73.2 Ohm
> (measured at 1 A) due to the dry soil. It confirms the dependency shown
> in the last year! In 2018 i saw the resistance rising up to 94 Ohm in
> late October, then it dropped to 57 Ohm (-40 %) in just 2 months.
> 
> It was interesting to see that the antenna current is much higher at
> lower frequencies (always at resonance | the PA output voltage is nearly
> constant). This effect was very clearly expressed.
> 
> IF of interest for other stations (having a data storage):
> 
> Frequency/Hz Start time/UTC Antenna current/A
> 970.005 2019-06-25_08:36:20,+20m 2.26
> 2970.005 2019-06-25_08:13:30,+20m 2.19
> 5170.005 2019-06-25_07:51:00,+20m 2.09
> 8270.005 2019-06-25_07:23:00,+25m 1.85
> end of the official part.
> 
> BTW, since a few days, the VLF RX site at DL0AO has a 3 axis VLF
> receiver recording data from a Octo-soundcard and a Raspberry pi 3,
> saving data to a 4 TB HDD so there is one more station that won't miss
> anything from now on (for example unannounced transmissions by SAQ).
> 
> Some spectrograms may be shown later.
> 
> Evetually there was a problem with the sample rate correction due to the
> upheating car, which caused a high deviation of the tracked sample rate.
> The max allowed range of 10 ppm was left in the end of the experiment
> but this was noticed a bit late, maybe.
> 
> 73, Stefan
-- 
73!
Roman, RW3ADB