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Hello all, well I am a little
embarassed this weekend....the cluster spots
looks like my
personal log! I guess the continental stations were deeply
involved in Field Day, or else wiped out by noise.
I suppose to
be slightly useful I ought to declare my, less that optimum,
receive set up. I am using a 16 turn 1.2m diameter loop made of
multi-pair
telephone cable. It tunes with about 650pF and is
tapped at 2 turns with
about 7 metres of 50 ohm coax to the
receiver, which is an AOR 7030+
fitted with a Collins 500Hz CW
filter. The audio goes to a PC running
Mike Cook's FFTDSP4
(prefered) or Hamview on a genuine Creative Labs SB16.
(I found
the on-motherboard SB16 emulator did strange things but almost
worked ok with FFTDSP, but would not display with Hamview....both
run
under DOS5) There is the slightest sign of 70Hz scan
harmonics on FFTDSP
or 90Hz on Hamview. The machine that runs
WIN95 totally destroys 136 so I
dont run spectrogram, which is a
pity. The loop is indoors at the moment
and is orientated
WNW/ESE. I could see a trace for DF2PY but he was just
too weak
for me to copy. (similarly with G3AQC...both Sunday)
For my own
purposes I have defined a 'measure' of the qrn in 'CPM' .....
well - Crashes per Minute! as counted on FFTDSP.
Sat. was
quite good at 1CPM from 0930Z to about 1400Z, when it rose to 5.
It
stayed between 3 and 6 through to 1630Z.
Sunday started well at 1 at 0930Z but rose to 4 by 1027Z and 6 by 1046Z.
It
was up to 10 by 1100Z and 20 to 24 by 1200Z a sign of things
to come later,
I suppose, as the thermally generated storms
brewed up.
136.9
DF2PY 1-Jun-1999 2007Z calling
cq - hvy qrn
<DK8KW>
G3NYK de GB7DXM 6-Jun 2043Z >
1800.0 G3XDV 6-Jun-1999
1154Z slow cw cq 137.75khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
PA0LQ 6-Jun-1999 1128Z wkg g3yxm
136.65khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3YXM 6-Jun-1999 1125Z cq
136.65khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3XDV 6-Jun-1999 1112Z slow cw
cq 137.75khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
PA0LQ 6-Jun-1999 1027Z in qso
136.80 khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3XDV 6-Jun-1999 0935Z cq
137.05khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3YXM 6-Jun-1999 0930Z slow cw
137.75khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3YXM 5-Jun-1999 1619Z cq
137.05khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3KEV 5-Jun-1999 1535Z cq
136.20khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
PA0CC 5-Jun-1999 1433Z clg
oz1kmr 136.4khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0 OZ1KMR
5-Jun-1999 1432Z cq
136.50khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0 PA2NJN
5-Jun-1999 1400Z test
136.50khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
DJ1RL 5-Jun-1999 1158Z on 136.9
kHz in qso
<DF2PY>
1800.0
G3YXM 5-Jun-1999 1145Z cq
137.05khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3BDQ 5-Jun-1999 1006Z cq
136.55khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3XDV 5-Jun-1999 0958Z now wkg
gw4alg 136.35khz <G3NYK>
1800.0
G3XDV 5-Jun-1999 0953Z cq
137.0khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
G3YXM 5-Jun-1999 0951Z cq 136.9
khz
<G3NYK>
1800.0
DF2PY 4-Jun-1999 1735Z == CQ-ing
on 136.9 kHz == <DF2PY>
G3NYK de
GB7DXM 6-Jun 2044Z >
I hope that proves
interesting, thanks to Wolf for breaking the monotony
in the last
column.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
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