Also Brian CT1DRP tramsmit phase locked DFCW from Porto using Andy's
Synthersiser with RS-232 control, because I wrote the code in Power Basic
for Windows, which Brian took a few bugs out of. The code was timed by
putting the 1PPS on the interupt pin of the PIC, and the freq was locked to
10MHz GPSDO. I think he was received by Bill deCarl,and probably others. He
also did a test with Peter over 48 hours with Peter measuring the phase. I
am not sure if he ever tried BPSK though......although Bill certainly talked
about it.
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Andrews" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2015 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: LF: EbNaut and The Cat / Take 3
Andy,
I recall doing a series of 137 kHz experiments with Peter Martinez using
PSK, with the sending end being triggered by 1PPS interrupts from my HP
GPS receiver. Somewhere here I have the 8051 code I kept modifying. We
were using bit timings of 30 seconds or so. If memory serves, there were
no wildly successful results, but he certainly copied my signal on some
nights that would have been rough for QRSS30.
John, W1TAG
On 11/25/2015 4:32 PM, Andy Talbot wrote:
Its a pity we no longer have 73kHz
Back in the early 1990's when that band was being proposed, one of the
ideas put forward as an argument for getting it was a link budget
worked out showing how TA might be just about possible using coherent
PSK with low symbol rates - something that would have been very
difficult for amateurs in those early days of DSP.
The TA path was managed eventually once, or perhaps twice AFAIR, by
very slow QRSS at high power and, I think, a period of enhanced
propagation. Suspect it would be easy enough on EbNaut now.
The PIC 1kHz bandpass digitiser is a very neat way of doing the back end
of an LF narrowband SDR, allowing embedded GSP timestamp and completely
independent of all the nasties associated with soundcards
Andy G4JNT
On 25 November 2015 at 20:42, Paul Nicholson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Markus wrote:
>
take long to exhaust the permutations.
And what are the limits at LF? How far do amateur signals go?
For that matter, how far does this mailing list reach?
How to interest more experimenters... away from Europe and
North America.
Was reading about lowFER, severe limits on antennas and input
power. Now that could be interesting. Do lowFER signals
reach Europe?
Lacking DX stations, the only option is some serious QRP.
Can we think of something interesting enough to drag Andy
away from his GUI?
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Paul Nicholson
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