It is very important at VLF to use effective sferic blanking when looking for weak amateur signals. There are 10 or 20 or more sferics per second and the wanted signal will be lost in the noise when
Wolf, Thank you, much appreciated! 73, Jim AA5BW Hi Paul and all, Thanks for the notes about the importance of the impulsive noise blanker. Since there are still a few windows users on the group, her
Hi Paul and all, Thanks for the notes about the importance of the impulsive noise blanker. Since there are still a few windows users on the group, here's how to activate the noise blanker in spectrum
I ran some tests using Bob's signal from last night using various sferic blanking thresholds http://abelian.org/vlf/tmp/29499_140303a.png I've given the threshold in dB as you would set into Spectrum