Hi John,
Cool that you heard him so easy. I wasn't home to do freq calibration
testing for him tonight. I got him tuned up on 505.80kc the other night but he
had to move it for the German station. He is running an old ART-15 rig I
believe. It's an old Navy tube rig that also provide him with nice radio room
heat...LOL!!! He's working on getting some equipment to measure the freq more
accurately. It's sure different working with a group of old school radio
operators when I was brought up with you guys and .1hz accuracy was the normal
thing to do. I think things will get better for this group as I hear talk of DDS
and GPS references daily now. I'll pass your post onto the 500kc.com reflector.
Thanks a bunch for listening and please feel free to go over to the 500kc.com
site and enter in your reception report. All of us on the ARRL 505kc Part 5
license appretiate everyone's efforts listening for the signals and reporting
what they found right or wrong. The ultimate goal is to get a US 500kc
Amateur allocation in the future.
Thanks es 73's,
Mike
WE0H
WD2XGI
WD2XSH/16
EN35hj
----- Original Message -----
From: John Andrews
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:53
PM
Subject: Re: LF: 505.80kc QRSS-30 beacon
tonight...2200z-0600z
Mike,
You might want to pass on that his signal is
copyable by ear in southern
Maine, but he's about 10.2 Hz high, which is
pretty far out for QRSS30.
An Argo 30 second screen is only 6 Hz wide. I
was watching for him on
505.800 and of course couldn't see him. Then I
realized that I was
hearing the signal through the speaker! A DL station
might not have that
advantage...
John Andrews, W1TAG (port in
FN43sv)
