Dear Jay, John, LF Group,
WE2XGR/2 was received continuously here between about midnight and 0400utc.
The time required to decode varied from 576 seconds down to 96s:
2009-09-12 03:05:17 >WOLF10 -r 8000.128 -f 1500 -t 1.0 -d 12 -w 0.0000
t: 24 f: 0.914 a:-0.8 dp: 85.3 ci: 0 cj: 0 K*D4SFHGUW/0C9V ?
t: 48 f: 0.918 a:-1.0 dp: 82.6 ci: 0 cj: 0 CALLV2YD2ZFMYC7 ?
t: 96 f: 0.117 a:-0.2 dp: 79.7 ci:15 cj:385 WE2XGR/2 FN31IS -
t: 192 f: 0.117 pm:87.25 jm:191 q: -1.8 -0.6 WE2XGR/2 FN31IS -
t: 288 f: 0.117 pm:123.2 jm:191 q: 0.2 -0.1 WE2XGR/2 FN31IS -
t: 384 f: 0.117 pm:135.9 jm:191 q: 0.2 0.3 WE2XGR/2 FN31IS -
etc.
WE2XGR/3 was decoded on the second attempt out of two between my getting
home and John going QRT:
2009-09-12 02:17:28 >WOLF10 -r 8000.125 -f 1700 -t 1.0 -d 12 -w 0.0000
t: 24 f: 0.295 a: 1.0 dp: 81.4 ci: 8 cj: 17 WENJFE9ONA8IO/C ?
t: 48 f: 0.295 a: 1.0 dp: 78.0 ci:13 cj:344 SZ5R3DCTZU8NVD/ ?
t: 96 f:-0.146 a: 0.5 dp: 75.3 ci: 8 cj:233 BTX/IFWE46PRNY3 ?
t: 192 f: 0.107 pm:9.342 jm:629 q: -9.5 -6.4 R*/UUYX O7XT682 -
t: 288 f: 0.107 pm:28.35 jm:629 q: -3.6 -4.1 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 384 f: 0.107 pm:58.49 jm:629 q: -0.5 -0.8 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 480 f: 0.107 pm:63.41 jm:629 q: -0.3 -0.3 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 576 f: 0.107 pm:76.69 jm:629 q: 0.7 0.1 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 672 f: 0.107 pm:77.39 jm:629 q: 0.3 -0.2 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 768 f: 0.107 pm:90.35 jm:629 q: 1.5 0.5 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 864 f: 0.107 pm:95.17 jm:629 q: 2.7 1.7 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t: 960 f: 0.107 pm:119.3 jm:629 q: 3.7 3.0 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t:1056 f: 0.107 pm:126.8 jm:629 q: 4.2 3.2 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t:1152 f: 0.107 pm:129.2 jm:629 q: 4.4 3.3 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
t:1248 f: 0.107 pm:129.6 jm:629 q: 4.3 3.2 WE2XGR/3 FN42CH -
Both signals were occasionally visible for a few minutes at a time as a
faint blur on a spectrogram display, but were not audible at all while I was
listening. The QRN was quite noisy overnight.
I was quite pleased to be able to successfully receive the two beacons,
since I have been having problems since the start of this year with broad
band noise that appears to originate from the broadcast stations several
hundred meters east of here. The noise can be nulled with a simple loop, but
of course this also nulls W/VE signals coming from the west. I have now set
up a broad-band loop/vertical/phasing unit system to produce a cardioid
pattern with a single null in an easterly direction, which seems to be
reasonably successful.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU
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