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Re: LF: Beacon to the west

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Subject: Re: LF: Beacon to the west
From: "Marco Cadeddu" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:36:21 -0000
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LF,
 
let me add my congrats, specially to Spiros!
Unfortunately the bad weather which delays reparation to my LF antenna doesn't allow me to join in the challenge...when the weather improves the season will be probably gone so will try to be ready for next season!
At this time the MF TX is almost ready and waiting for an antenna..it is still raining so spend this holiday day refurbishing the LF TX wth some small improvement..
I'm also intrigued for a trial on 9 kHz..but is not clear how is the legal stand here: officially, according the national frequency assignation, frequencies below 9 kHz should be free for short range applications and I should simply notify the communication authority and inform them about what I'm intended to do, but as you probably know, in Italy is not so easy and there is a not written law which states "only officially allowed task are permitted" the general "if not forbidden is free" rule could be a risk unless you like to spend time in the court!
Henny, how is by you? Did you get a special authorization?
 
Enjoy MF, LF VLF!
 
73 Marco, IK1HSS
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Beacon to the west

Well done, congratulations to the four of you! I would absolutely agree with Stefan that the traces from Joe and Spiros in America are beyond doubt, and they also perfectly line up with local Eu captures. Note that Spiros is quite a bit further than us here, and the ground reflection after his first hop is on land.
 
Thanks Stefan for mentioning mine among the "strong stations", but I have to say that I am not even hoping to come near that attribute. Actually in my opinion, the "warming of the ionosphere" by your powerful and consistent beacon signal is quite valuable for us weak ones:
- it's a very useful indication of propagation versus noise level on the other side. By the thickness of Stefan's dogbones, we know when we might become barely visible ;-),
- it provides a perfect time and frequency frame to which we can reference lonely bright pixels and partial traces,
- it is an incentive for potential remote receivers to run their spectrograms and grabbers,
- and last not least, being shown what can be done is a motivation for us to learn and improve our modest setups.
So let me say thanks to all involved, for keeping this hard but wonderful band so much alive.
 
Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)
 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Beacon to the west

John Jay, Joe, Spiros, LF,

Jay, John, thanks for capturing our signals from EU.

And congrats to DF2JP for beeing received at W1VD, not bad for almost May! Looks like Joe counts to the strongest LF stns here in DL, apart from DF6NM and me.

About the traces of SV8CS at W1TAG, i find the traces are quite clear. And i would vote for calling this an official detection of SV8CS in the US. Distance is 7491 km, http://no.nonsense.ee/qthmap/?qth=FN42CH&from=km07js, very impressing!
So my congrats to Spiros!
What do others think about this detection?

Looks like it was a successful night on LF :-)

73, Stefan/DK7FC



Am 29.04.2013 13:14, schrieb John Andrews:
Spiros,

I received an interesting signal last night. If you compare the screen shots at G4WGT:

http://www.w1tag.com/files/G4WGT-SV8CS.jpg

to the screen shot at WTAG:

http://www.w1tag.com/files/W1TAG-SV8CS.jpg

you will note a correlation in frequency and in part of the "8" and part of the "C" in your callsign.

This does NOT prove reception, but suggests that the signal may have been there. Conditions were fairly quiet here last night, and the Dst has recovered to reasonable levels.

John, W1TAG
FN42ch

On 4/29/2013 1:15 AM, SV8CS- Spiros Chimarios wrote:

My signal captured by G4WGT grabber (QRB 2512Km).
73, Spiros
SV8CS




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