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
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: LF: WSPR 2 and WSPR 15 on 630m
There's a thread in the VK
600m group discussing this unusual wspr spot:
Best 73, Markus (DF6NM)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: LF: WSPR 2 and WSPR 15 on 630m
Andy
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2013-02-16 16:44 VK1DSH 0.475078 -29
0 QF44ms 50 F6CNI/BEV JN19qb
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Eddie G3ZJO
