John
Your beacon was peaking S5 at 1732z then qsa 0 for periods and up again,
characteristic of insufficient power for the freq at that time.
It is the same on HF with qrp stns, in and out of the noise, whereas qro
stns are solid copy.
73 de Mal/G3KEV
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Pumford-Green GM4SLV" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: LF: QRP Beacon 501.5
>
> Hello Jim & LF group,
>
> Thanks for the report. This is the sort of thing I wondered about.
>
> Up to 18:36 the 5W / 20mw ERP signal was readable but dropping another
> 7dB and it was below the noise floor. I wonder how many dB margin there
> is at 5W before the signal becomes unreadable?
>
> I'll try upping by 3dB at 19:45 to 2W. Then another 3dB or so at 20:00
>
>
> Thanks for listening all,
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:00:40 -0000
> "James Moritz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Dear John, LF Group,
> >
> > Up to 1836utc you were getting up to a reasonably readable s3 level
> > on the peaks of the fades - now you are down to a faint line on the
> > spectrogram display.
> >
> > Cheers, Jim Moritz
> > 73 de M0BMU
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Pumford-Green GM4SLV" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: LF: QRP Beacon 501.5
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:29:00 +0000
> > > "Chris McCarthy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello John,
> > > > at 18:27 peaking 5 4 9
> > > > Chris
> > > > G3XVL (Ipswich, JO02NB)
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks Chris and Dave.
> > >
> > > Now at 18:36 down to 1W and approx 5mW ERP
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> John GM4SLV
> IP90gg
> Clousta, Shetland
>
>
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