Dear Group, The TX is on again, all warmed up from last night with G0MRF. Hopefully conditions are more favourable tonight -- if so, any reports will be gratefully received. 50 watts to the 100m Rota
And yours truly, having replaced a fried fet from last night, will be on 477.7 QRSS3 also. 73 Joe VO1NA From Mitch: Testing MP on approx 475 khz - QRSS3 and 150 watts with slightly mismatched antenna
Hi Edgar, Yes, I must go up the hill and switch over the RL aerial back to 2200 metres. Hopefully tonight in the dark and cold -11C Brrrrr! 73 Joe VO1NA Hi Joe, Receiver running if you wish to conduc
Hi Roelof, Thanks for the signal report. I had been lamenting that nobody had sent one! You have a very good RX setup. 73 Joe Hello Joe, Attached my Linrad playback screenshot of last night. Excellen
Bonjour Jean_Pierre, A lovely capture -- merci beaucoup. Would you like to try some CW on 136.5 kHz? 73 Joe VO1NA Very good copy of VO1NA last night Joe , what your power and antenna please ? (I am i
Sorry Jean-Pierre, I forgot to mention the details. Power ~1kW to an 100m L wire at 15m average height. 73 Joe Bonjour Jean_Pierre, A lovely capture -- merci beaucoup. Would you like to try some CW o
Thank-you Joe, Jean-Pierre and Stefan. Hi Alan. I was concerned about the fuzzies wondering what was arcing and ablaze up on the hill, but on seeing the spectrograms these seem to be DCF39 fuzzies...
Thanks Gary for the capture and grabber service. Its good to know the Raspi and TX are working properly. I haven't seen anything on Edgar's captures yet, but will keep trying. https://dl.dropboxuserc
Hi Roelof, Many thanks for this recording. It's nice to hear the actual CW. About 35 watts were fed to the monopole for these transmissions. The 100m RL is still on the ground; we are expecting anoth
Good to hear that you're OK Laurence! That was a nasty one... 73 Joe VO1NA Morning all - Can I get the current measured mark/space HGA22 beacon circa 135.6 please - signals are pretty weak and Im not
Thanks Jay for putting the grabber on line. Good copy at times. Thank-you Roelof - a nice copy indeed. I will try again tonight and if the aerial survives the current nasty storm wx tonight (wind and
Hi Roelof, Perhaps it was propagation but it was more likely the ATU which was set for 60m instead of 630! Will give it another try tonight. 30 watts to the 100m RL at 15m average height. Will it mak
Hi Domenico, All set up for 2200 utc tonight and at 15 min intervals thereafter. 75 chars K19A 1936 symbols 387.2 seconds 10 watts continuous carrier unless the FET fries! The same DOCXO ref osc will
Thanks Markus and Roelof for the reports. I'm guessing a slower bit rate and more power might help. Please feel free to make a suggestion and we'll try again tonight. 73 Joe VO1NA Got some pieces of
OK lets give it another go. 8K19A, 10 characters, 1 second symbols, 752 seconds and a bit more power... starting 2245 and each 15 mins. GL & Thanks to all Joe VO1NA On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, markusvester@a
Hi Roelof, Very nice reception. The power was increased to 20 watts last night. Maybe one day we can try for a 2x CW. 73 and thank-you Joe Hello Joe, No facility here for Ebnaut decoding. However, go