Hi Bill and congrats on the reception.  SAQ was heard clearly again
at 1300 utc.  Many thanks to the operators and organisers for
a very interesting morning.

I have uploaded an audio clip from the first transmission to
www.ucs.mun.ca/~jcraig/lfex.html.  This clip is not procesed in any way.

As Bill mentions there were several other stations on FSK.  One
was at 18.2 kHz and is quite loud in the audio clip.  I guess NAA
was at 24.0.  Can someone tell me what the other ones were?

73
Joe

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Bill de Carle wrote:

> Got up early today to listen for SAQ (first run started up at 4:15 am EDT).
> I had a chance to try 3 antennas on the first transmission:
>
> 1: Large (20 x 30 feet vertical loop) in trees but favouring east/west -
>      Heard lots of other stuff but nothing from SAQ
>
> 2: Ferrite Rod (3/4" square x 12" long), tuned, into OP-27 preamp -
> good SNR between
>      static crashes but weak signal
>
> 3: 40-turn tuned loop diamond-shaped equiv to 75 cm dia circle in
> area - OP-27 preamp
>      SNR similar to ferrite rod but stronger signal and noise
>
> Used sound card receiver by SM6LKM, recorded audio to cassette.  Best
> settings were
> with 1000-Hz bandwidth and local osc set for 16457 Hz.
>
> The QRN here was terrible for both transmissions, slightly better on
> second transmission
> but by then the locals were up for breakfast and my powerline-induced
> noise was much
> worse, hi!  The static was incessant, so much that I was not able to
> copy the official
> message.  But I did hear lots of "VVV VVV VVV DE SAQ SAQ SAQ" and
> some long dashes before
> the official transmission.  Don't think there is much I can do with
> the recording to
> improve the copy.
>
> My QTH is Westmeath, Ontario, Canada - grid square FN15nt (over 1000
> Km inland from the
> Atlantic Coast).  Bearing to SAQ is 56 degrees magnetic.  Calculated
> distance: 5865 Km.
>
> Many thanks to SM6LKM for the cute software receiver and to the folks
> at Grimeton for
> making it happen.  This was the first time I was able to hear
> anything from SAQ.
>
> 73,
> Bill VE2IQ
>
>
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