Re: LF: OP8 T/A?

["Graham" <g8fzk@g8fzk.fsnet.co.uk>]

Missed  Stefan  by a  Cats  whisker  ?

:)

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From: <jrusgrove@comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:48 PM
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Subject: Re: LF: OP8 T/A?

> Stefan
>
> Good thing John was watching ... cat apparently spun the tuning dial and I 
> didn't notice until morning. Cool nights now so the cats like to sleep on 
> the warm receiver. Will engage dial brake next time ;~)
> Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Stefan Schäfer" <Stefan.Schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:45 AM
> Subject: Re: LF: OP8 T/A?
>
>
> Hello John ,
>
> OH! Good work, congrats to your receive equpiment! That is amazing. In
> the first moment i thought there were no decodes in our test because no
> red lines are shown in the pskmap. But later i found them in the text.
> Many thanks for the test. It's nice to detect that peak of best
> propagation, in 8 minute intervals. In a spectrogram it would work as
> well of course...
> So i still don't know if Jay got some results too?
>
> A summary of detections showing up here is attached (all T/A and the
> highest S/N of the others)
>
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
> Am 29.08.2012 13:02, schrieb John Andrews:
> > Stephan,
> >
> > Well, I had four "hits" last night:
> >
> > 02:44    136 DK7FC de WD2XES Op8 3714 mi -30 dB in Holden, MA  USA
> > 02:36    136 DK7FC de WD2XES Op8 3714 mi -29 dB in Holden, MA  USA
> > 02:28    136 DK7FC de WD2XES Op8 3714 mi -29 dB in Holden, MA  USA
> > 02:20    136 DK7FC de WD2XES Op8 3714 mi -30 dB in Holden, MA  USA
> >
> > That was in the time frame of a single OP32 transmission, and must
> > have represented a nice signal peak.
> >
> > John, W1TAG/WD2XES
> >
> > On 8/28/2012 10:11 PM, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
> > > Hi both,
> > >
> > > Many thanks. It's 4:10 AM here now and i will take some sleep i think
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > 73, Stefan
> > >
> > > Am 29.08.2012 04:17, schrieb John Andrews:
> > > > Stephan,
> > > >
> > > > I just got home at 0200Z, and will leave the receiver running in OP8
> > > > overnight.
> > > >
> > > > John, W1TAG
> > > >
> > > > On 8/28/2012 8:01 PM, Stefan Schäfer wrote:
> > > > > Jay, LF,
> > > > >
> > > > > After finishing the next sequence in OP32 (hopefully reaching
> > > > > UA4WPF) i
> > > > > would like to try OP8 over to W1. Would you like to try?
> > > > >
> > > > > 73, Stefan/DK7FC