An unusual weekend. I had to work most of the time, so little
activity, except for listening (watching) for the earth tests from
John, G0AKN.
Saturday 7 August:
Local noise on 136kHz in morning.
Tuned up antenna and Rx filter on 73kHz prior to Eclipse tests. Put
out an e-mail inviting skeds.
Went to work.
Static bad later. Nil heard.
Phoned late evening by G0AKN asking me to listen for him in
71.84kHz. Bad static. Thought I heard something but unsure.
Computer monitor failed to synch because it had got hot, so no
Spectrogram.
Sunday 8 August:
Local noise still on 136kHz.
Put out normal and slow CW calls on 71.9kHz.
Downloaded Spectrogram 5.0.9. I can confirm this is much better
than 5.0. Not been able to compare properly with 4.2.6.5 but it
seems at least as good.
Watched for G0AKN on 72.84kHz. Very weak occasional straight
lines in the noise. Nothing positive.
I put out normal and slow CW CQs on the same frequency after the
tests. No takers.
Re-tuned system to 136kHz - about 5 minutes. Immediately heard
John on 137.05kHz at S3. Very good on Spectrogram. The second
set of tests were slightly poorer than the first. John called me about
some more tests at 1230UTC and these seemed the best. Well
done! Distance not checked but must be 300km+.
See http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/g0akn.htm for seven
Spectrograms. Note these are not yet linked from the rest of my
site - put up in haste.
Also heard G3KAU at 5 9+10 9.
Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm
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