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Re: VLF: DK7FC's 8th VLF kite experiment

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Subject: Re: VLF: DK7FC's 8th VLF kite experiment
From: Stefan Schäfer <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:57:14 +0200
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Hi Horst,

Am 21.10.2010 18:23, schrieb Horst Stöcker:
So it will be possible to hear both - just with only one computer.
Not sure if you will HEAR my signal ;-) but you can see it while listening to SAQ!
Would it be a good idea that all RX-stations use the same setup (.usr) on SpecLab? I now have collected 6 different files here in the reflector and I am a bit confused now which will be the best to start with.

There are different settings which work fine. Some are using an FFT of 3.8 mHz, others 4,5 mHz, both is working. Actually it depends on your QTH and your type of antenna (band limited (like M0BMU or F5WK...) or not). The file i have recently sent to Tony/EI8JK will work fine in UK and in a radius of say 2000 km of UK since the samplerate drift is compensated by locking to GQZ which quite strong here. But it will just work if your antenna is broad band and not band limited, so that GQZ can be received. So if you would live in California, locking to NAA would be more suitable, as an example. Of course you can select all you need and can configure the system exactly as needed but it seems to be difficult for some püeople. For me it was difficult as well but i got a lot of help by DF6NM who quasi grow up with this program ;-) Maybe Wolf/DL4YHF should held some lessons about SL on 80m SSB ;-)
Several people have received on my 7th experiment without locking to any reference and it worked as well, due to the good S/N and reasonably low drift. The drift was rather on my side ;-) So it will work anyway! It just gets critical if the S/N is very small and the local xtal drift is high since then, the signal gets spread over several pixels which will reduce the S/N for each pixel.
What is really important is the use of a band limiting before the noise blanking, either in the antenna/preamp or in the RX. Thus i applied a band filter and a clipper+blanker in the files i supported. Michael Oexner has done the test during my earth antenna transmission and compared the results. you probably saw the difference!  I hope this answer isn't even more confusing ;-)

73, Stefan
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