Hi Roelof et al., Thanks for all those comments about ideas, alternative parts, and sources! Ordered! @Mal, g3kev: indeed I'm thinking about ICs like AD797 or LT1028 at the 2nd stage for low frequenc
Hi Dex, I have no raw data from today now but here's a plot of 135.43 kHz, from 2011-02-18, ~2330-0000 utc: http://www.df3lp.de/hga22/2011-02-18_2330.png Distance is 1008 km, bearing 138 deg., select
Hi Mal, It's a voltage controlled TCXO (TCVCXO). Data sheet is available on the net, "google" for "MC137X7". Should be somewhat more stable compared to ordinary CO. Greetings, Peter
Hi Alex, Impressive audible! But how did you ruled out receiving MSF or WWVB both running at 60 kHz too? May be from the Morse code sent in between? 73 de Peter, df3lp Kiel, North Germany
Hi Stefan, Confirming your findings. In the late 90th I built a 2m-loop from 1" coax ("Flexwell") for nulling out Loran-C splatter. I remember a bandwidth of ~12-15 kHz => Q ~= 10 with 8.2uH/165nF. h
Hi Group, May be SAQ was active this afternoon (2011-07-12)? Observed distinct signals around 1630 & 1730 utc at 17.2 kHz. Also visible on the monitors in Heidelberg and at Iceland. Peter, df3lp
Hi John, If you are looking for open source software: http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ Compiles on Linux, BSD, MacOS and Cygwin. Learning is quite easy using the examples: http://qucs.sourceforge.net/exa
Hi Group, Local interferences were less strong here at 2. transmission. http://www.df3lp.de/misc/SAQ_2011-07-03-1200.wav As usual there was some kind of instability audible and a lot of carrier in be
Hi Group, Very strong at the Baltic Sea (sic!) http://www.df3lp.de/misc/SAQ_2011-07-03.png Antenna: http://www.df3lp.de/misc/E-Field-Probe_2011-03.jpg (mounted at roof-edge) Peter, df3lp
Hi Mal, Bundling is not worth the effort. In case of ferrite loop sticks length is what matters. This is just a fun experiment for me because I do not need any Mephistopheles: "My good sir, you obser
Hi Daniele, You wrote: ... Yesterday evening a purchased a bunch of 7 x MU400HH ferrites (10mm x 200mm each) on eBay, planning to join them together "in parallel" to form a fatter rod, no idea if it
Hi again Daniele, I forgot some words about shielding. Do not use solid sheet. I just built a small receiver for rtty at 147 kHz for weather report reception when sailing. Using a fine looking u-shap
Moin Stefan, You wrote: ... I'm using a cheap GPS module (http://cgi.ebay.de/Jupiter-Rockwell-TU30-D420-031-GPS-Empfanger-/180713452906?pt=DE_GPS_Navigationssysteme&hash=item2a135c756a) which has a 1