Laurence, LF,
This is a forwarded message from K3SIW who became a new member of this
group it seems :-) He also received me in Illinois, EN52TA, Path:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/DK7FC-K3SIW.png
His RX setup is described below.
That would be nice to have a growing TA activity with more RX and TX
stations on both sides. As seen last week at W1VD and VE2IQ there are a
few stations from EU who are visible there, like DF6NM and PA3CPM.
Maybe a few of the transmitting stations of "the good old days" come
back. Also i got infos of new stations in Russia who plan to become
QRV. There are already plenty of RX stations who even run grabbers such
as UA0SNV.
The map showing the detections of my signal becomes larger and larger
it seems, but it is still possible to show all TA detections:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/DK7FC-TA-so-far2.png
So maybe K3SIW will become an active part of this group too and will
see further stations soon :-)
73, Stefan/DK7FC
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Stefan,
Thanks for putting out such a great signal from Europe! I saw a note
this morning indicating Laurence decoded you in Alaska too. Feel free to
forward my capture to the RSGB LF group. I've signed up to receive
emails from that group but will have to learn how to post to it. Will
keep trying here for your full call.
My receive setup is modest. Usually I use an e-probe at 30' on the house
roof but it tends to be noisy at 136 kHz until all the neighbors go to
sleep. So the evening I copied your signal I was using a 1-meter loop
away from the house. I've only been listening to LF for a few years and
began with a 10 foot (3 meter) shielded loop using 1/2" Heliax based on
notes by VE7SL (http://members.shaw.ca/ve7sl/burhans.html; image 1645).
That took too much real estate in the back yard so I retired it and
started using the e-probe (image 3576; the e-probe is above a 6-meter
beam and crossed-yagi satellite antennas). That was nice because a
rotator wasn't needed but I missed being able to null out unwanted
signals. So I added a Wellbrook LFL1010 1-meter loop earlier this year
(image 5269). That is an untuned loop so it may not perform as well as
your tuned loop, but not needing to worry about tuning is nice since I
monitor VLF through HF with it. It seems to do quite well and I've
received over 1600 NDBs so far. The receiver is an RFSpace SDR-IQ
interfaced with a Dell/WindowsXP computer. That allows me to run ARGO,
Spectrum Laboratory, etc. along with the SpectraVue control program
(screen capture image).
Best wishes and more DX for you in 2012,
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta
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