Hello Jim.

I seem to get a reasonable signal from this mystery station most
evenings. Last night it was good mostly but with some very deep fades,
down below the noise at times. My grabber covers the frequency in
question (but mainly to show SK6RUD) and I keep all the 5-minute
captures.

I'm expecting delivery of a Wellbrook ALA1530 soon, which will at least
allow me to attempt to get a bearing, as I have no other loop antenna
here yet.

It's an interesting signal, and if we know where it was it would
perhaps allow us to study propagation, Not knowing what you're looking
at makes it rather difficult to judge how the band is performing!

A French station reported an estimated bearing recently, perhaps you
could use that to triangulate and give us a shot at where you think it
might be, although I guess from the reported bearings you might not
have a good enough angular separation to make a good estimate. I hope
to join the hunt soon

Cheers,

John


On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:22:26 +0100
"James Moritz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear LF Group,
> 
> I have been trying to D/F the "VVV TEST" signal on 500.5kHz for the
> past few days. The SNR here has not been good enough to get an
> accurate null using the loop antenna, but the bearing is definitely
> roughly NE/SW from my location at IO91VR just north of London. The
> signal has DX-like QSB so I guess it is at least hundreds of km from
> here. In the light of other reports, a location somewhere around the
> Baltic area, or perhaps beyond, would seem feasible.
> 
> Cheers, Jim Moritz
> 73 de M0BMU
> 
>