Hi Dimitris,
sorry for that. I noticed my error after I sent
out the first mail, my only excuse being that I was pretty much overwhelmed
by the fantastic news.
Yes I saw that wspr activity is on the upsurge in
VK. Stefan and I discussed this this afternoon, and one thought was
that keeping split bands might be a better idea. When several stations
engage in two-way attempts in the same subband, the receivers will be
likely affected by overloading and noiseblanker desensitizing effects.
So you might want too consider staying with separate
slots.
There was some uncertainty whether Dale's 50 W
tag was meant to be TX power or ERP. Hereabouts we've sort of settled on
stating ERP, simply because radiated power is the relevant quantity
for SNR, whereas antenna efficiencies can vary vastly.
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: VK1DSH reception in France WSPR 2 on
630m
G'day
Markus,
just a quick clarification - it wasn't me, it was Dale VK1DSH
that transmitted the famous packet received in France. Since that
incident, we changed our WSPR frequency to comply with the European one and
we will be transmitting as often as we can in order to find out if
this can be repeated! Dale is radiating similar amounts of RF to me,
which I calculate to be around 0.5 W.
73,
Dimitris
2013/2/17 Markus Vester <[email protected]>: > Wow,
that's excellent! I wouldn't have thought this is possible. >
Congratulations to both Andy and Dimitris! > > Best 73, >
Markus > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >
From: André Guyé > To: [email protected] >
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 1:08 PM > Subject: LF: VK1DSH reception in
France WSPR 2 on 630m > > From F6CNI
: > > > > Hello, I give you some info about the MF
reception of Dale VK1DSH signal > here in
France. > > > > For 2 weeks, the propagation between EU
/ VK on 160 meters is great, and I > had some CW QSO barefoot. I think
that for this DX path the propagation on > MF may be similar than on 160 m
? > > > > At the date of this event, between the Dale
and Andy QTH, the best moment is > a bit before the grey line sunset in
France, when the sun elevation is about > 3°. But on 160 meters that needs
especially good propagation and the opening > is rare and very short, 5 to
15 minutes only. This moment is now around 1645 > TU in my QTH. A bit
later, when the sunrise at VK land in grey line, that is > a second short
period for success, around 1920 TU. That is true only for > south to north
hemisphere DX. > > > > For north / north path (EU to
east coast or centre of States) the best > moment is simply in the middle
of the night. But perhaps for longer path, as > west coast the sunrise in
Europe is better ? > > > > My garden is quite large but
in centre of the city, a noisy location. > Antennas for LF / MF are an 85
meters long Inverted L and a K9AY. RX are > IC7200, IC706MK2 and a
FT1000MP. > > > > Only 3 miles away from my home, there
is a golf. That is my second hobby. > Due to the very bad weather in
France for one month, there is a very little > player’s activity. So a
week ago I hang on border of the golf a simple > beverage using a very
light wire. About 500 or a bit more meters long aiming > to 80° azimuth.
For the test yesterday I had in my car the IC7200 on 473.5 > USB and a
portable computer (only 2 hours of autonomy) with 3G. I stay on > place
only during 40 minutes. That is the story. I catch one spot from
Dale. > > > > What that means ? The Beverage and not
power line helps a lot giving a very > low noise level. The use of the
473.5 USB QRG is good, because there is not > any QRM on this frequency.
And certainly a great propagation day, so I was > lucky listening the good
frequency at the best moment. What about the use of > long period of
TXing, as WSPR15 or QRSS ? For this very long path, I think > that the
opening duration time is too short for that use
? > > > > Now, as Dale said to me in a mail, one spot is
not sufficient to valid that. > So, I’ll try again but it is necessary for
me to hurry, because the beverage > antenna must be dismounted in a short
time. > > > > For information, I use some codes when I
am receiving LF, MF or 160m: > > > > F6CNI : normal,
listening only WSPR2 > F6CNI/2 : I am listening both WSPR2 and WSPR15
(giving F6CNI/15 reports for > WSPR15) > F6CNI/RX1 and F6CNI/RX2 : I
use 2 RX with 2 RX antennas > F6CNI/BEV : one RX is using the Beverage on
the Golf location. > > > > Best 73. Sorry my poor
english. > > > > F6CNI Andy.
JN19QB > > > > > From: Markus Vester > Sent:
Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:53 AM > To: [email protected] >
Subject: Re: LF: WSPR 2 and WSPR 15 on 630m > > There's a thread in
the VK 600m group discussing this unusual wspr spot: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/600m/message/6415 > >
Best 73, Markus (DF6NM) > > ----- Original Message ----- >
From: g3zjo > To: [email protected] >
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: LF: WSPR 2 and
WSPR 15 on 630m > > Andy > > Was this
direct? > > 2013-02-16
16:44 VK1DSH
0.475078 -29
0 QF44ms > 50
F6CNI/BEV JN19qb
16832 310 > > Eddie
G3ZJO >
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