Currently I am testing again with a 20m baseline earth-electrode antenna on 472kHz WSPR even though there is 8cm of snow on the lawn and ALL of the connecting wire is underneath the snow! There is absolutely nothing in the air at all. The attached photo shows the line of the connecting wire under the snow.
Already this afternoon I've had 6 unique reporters with best DX (so far) 126km:
2013-01-21 16:46 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475641 |
-30 | 0 | JO02dg | 0.005 | M0BMU | IO91vr | 69 | 210 |
2013-01-21 16:46 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475641 | -27 | 0 | JO02dg | 0.005 |
G8ALS | IO92fk | 126 | 279 |
2013-01-21 16:04 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475647 | -12 | 0 | JO02dg | 0.005 |
G3XDV | IO91vt | 61 | 214 |
2013-01-21 15:46 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475647 | -20 | 1 | JO02dg | 0.005 |
G3ZJO | IO92ng | 79 | 270 |
2013-01-21 15:42 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475693 | +3 | 0 | JO02dg | 0.005 |
G0VQH | JO02fe | 15 | 129 |
2013-01-21 15:42 | G3XBM/1 | 0.475696 | -10 | 0 | JO02dg | 0.005 |
G4KPX | JO02dj | 14 | 0 |
Any reports would be appreciated.
Reports from G3XDV for example are only around 8dB down on the Marconi. I am using G3XBM/1 on the WSPR database to distinguish the earth-electrode tests from my usual Marconi vertical (the feed to my 10m halo) where I am using G3XBM.
ERP will be recalculated later based on actual S/N measurements of ground wave.