In view of the fact that I seem to be hearing stations many times 
better than they are receiving me at the moment (!) I have started to 
make short audio recordings of stations on the band to give you all 
an idea of my receiver performance. You will find these at:
http://my.opera.com/davews/blog/2007/06/05/500khz-recordings

At the moment there are only G3KEV, G3UNT, G3VTT and G3XIZ there, but 
I will add to it from time to time until most of the active stations 
are there. (if anybody does NOT want to be there, please let me know 
and I will remove them).

It is difficult to indicate actually signal strength from an audio 
recording. Most of the above were s8-s9 on the meter and you will see 
that the signal to noise ratio is excellent with all of them way 
above the noise.

Hope this is of interest.

By the way I noticed that GW3UEP was to be on the band this morning 
from 0545 local. By the time I had seen his email it was already 0640 
and I heard nothing of him on 502.0. I don't think I have heard Roger 
yet, but that sort of time is rather early even for me!

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com