All EU, I found DCF39 very strong tonight in Yukon and am now monitoring the low end near 135.6-135.7 Is anyone to put an amateur beacon on? J. VY1JA CP20kw
Mike, Thanks for the information. It gives me an idea where to watch. The bandpass of Argo is now centered on 135.9215kHz. Mode QRSS60. The software will be doing auto capture 24 hrs/d for the next f
Uwe, Thanks for posting the update. Your signal should fall within the visible bandpass which is 135920.7 to135922.4 for the next few days. May we all have excellent propagation and even better luck
John, I would be quite surprised if Power Line Carrier equipment were disrupted by amateur equipment. The power lines are rotated physically to balance fields for a number of reasons. It just happens
Good afternoon, Bryan, and All. The problem with being one of they or them "what speaks", is that in doing so the mouth is opened, increasing the chances of foot-in-mouth disease. In answer to your q
Hello All, Reception can begin again centered on 135.9205, as the Aurora has died. If any will be running QRSS60 or QRSS120, the gear will be monitoring and set for Auto-capture. Let's hope the New Y
All, Here is a Capture of DCF39 just before I switched to 135.92 today, and this is with a high Auroral activity index of 8.0. http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html "J" VY1JA CP20kw JPEG image
Mike and All, I will be listening tonight from my sunset at about 0000 to the last EU sunrise 08:15? or until I send a message that I have to leave the test. I will be watching in the EU DX window ce
Alan, Walter, and All, I have often visually observed the phenomena of intense Aurora waving and fluttering that would be in the range from rapid flutter to once every few minutes. Aurora (both visib
Alan, Unfortunately, I was discussing two diverse things, which may or may not have explanation in Aurora. First, what I saw on TIL's 137 signal has to have been some kind of long delay echo. The rea
Scott, The main 137 antenna will be an inverted-L with two, 392 foot long #10 copper clad horizontal wires fanning out from the tower in a V. I am using this V-Beam antenna for reception on LF now an
Mal, Do you have a sketch of the antenna resonating and matching that you can send, or possibly a link to a webpage it is on? A sketch will make it easier for me to understand. J.
Peter, Thanks for catching my mistake... Elnec was correct, but I made a typographical error. The decimal was one place off. It is 0.2053 Ohms, not 0.02053 Ohms, and is close to the 0.16 figure you h
Alex, The antenna is in a flat mountain valley far from any trees, but it has a long low house running from about 7 meters to about 27 meters from the base of the vertical tower. Other buildings and
Alex, Jim, Markus, and LF, The reason for setting my calculations in front of all, is that I am new to LF and want the station to have early success, rather than being a set of mistakes and recoverie
Pat, and LF, Extending the subject... In Canada work ABOVE a certain line on a weather map and below a line on the thermometer can combine to stall work. It is ~-51C (-57F) here this morning in our h
Alex and LF, Since optimum Q in an inductor with solid wire requires an air space between adjacent conductors equal to conductor diameter, would it make sense to wind a coil with two varnished conduc
