Hello Friends,
The week-end of 13-15 January 2001 is a holiday week-end in
the USA and, once again this year, adventurous members of
the AMRAD LF fraternity will proceed to Nags Head (North
Carolina) to set up various receiving gear and listen for:
* European Amateur LF transmissions, (135-137)
* Canadian Amateur LF Transmissions, (135-137)
* LowFer US transmissions, (160-190)
* European LF Broadcasters, (150-240 kHz) and
* Aero navigation beacons
Equipment, to include professional/ex-military
communications receivers, laptops loaded with Spectran,
large loops and e-field probes, will be set up both at Frank
Gentges K0BRA's beach cottage and, weather permitting,
on the beach proper (which last year yielded a slightly
better noise level, and also peaked the interest of the
local
Constabulary).
We will try this year Franks' newly built e-field probe that
appears to exhibit a fairly remarkable (+32dBm) compression
point, and may thus go a long way to avoid the Loran signal
interferences we experienced last year.
We have established in the past that 1800h-2400h local time
(2300-0500 Zulu) is about the best time period for us to
receive European Long-wave broadcast (such as
France-Inter).
Hence we will be listening Saturday 13 January at 2300Z
until Sunday 14 at 0500Z and again from Sunday 14 at 2300Z
until Monday 15 January 0500Z.
Please let us know who will be transmitting what (QRSS ?)
and on what frequencies.
Last year, the British amateurs who agreed to transmit that
week end managed to coordinate their transmitting
frequencies so that these would all be clustered and may be
observed on only _one_ Spectran screen.
Spacing of 10Hz between stations is fine.
Also silent periods of 30 seconds between ID transmissions
will allow us to better identify for sure whether we are
seeing a real weak amateur signal, or simply hallucinating
because we have been staring at those screens for too
long :-)
We will have Internet access at Nags Head, and like last
year, will be able to call you over the telephone if
successful.
73
Andre' N4ICK
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