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Re: LF: Daytime 29.499 kHz

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Subject: Re: LF: Daytime 29.499 kHz
From: "Alan Melia" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:59:06 -0000
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Hi Jim I have been pondering those plots, but beware they are "relatve amplitude" I'm not quite sure what Paul means here but the big swings on a small signal v small swings on a big signal may not be significant. I presume that the amplitudes are logaritmic (dBs)

The phase swing is harder to explain. We really need a close in station monitoring NAA phase to be sure, but it could just be an antenna retune? I tend to the feeling that sudden changes dont happen in nature :-)) just when a fidgety hand comes into play. Only really the phase plots give us definite changes the ionosphere.

I dont know how to explain this but (and it may be wishfull thinking :-) ) I think I see small upward blips , and downward blips in NAA which seem to correspond to the big upward and downward swings of Bob's signal in the night-time period. One would not expect them to be exactly the same as the paths are a different length and the frequencies are different. The effect on the amplitude is greatly affected but the mix of modes propagating ?? I am not a great believer in averages but I wonder what it would look like with a running average to smooth the XBA trace a bit. Though that would hide he detail.

The daytime signal looks as though it might be too close to the noise to follow the NAA "daytime dome shape".

Great bit of signal monitoring and processing.

Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message ----- From: "hvanesce" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 11:19 PM
Subject: RE: LF: Daytime 29.499 kHz


Paul,

With each piece of data (your NAA/WH2XBA 3-day amplitude below) this becomes
more interesting.

Summarizing some previous discussion and thoughts:
NAA amplitude and phase are stable and repeatable night to night (amplitudes
stable and repeatable within +/- 1dB across 3 nights).
On two successive nights WH2XBA amplitudes are reduced and less stable (less
stable even after normalizing amplitude stability for SNR), and are
accompanied by premature, fast phase swings (2-hour transitions) of ~120
degrees.
If I think of ionosphere, oscillator phase, long-path ground effects,
antenna and weather, my thoughts are slightly biased toward antenna and
perhaps some secondary weather/temperature effect on the antenna, as you and
Bob had considered.

I'm glad that you noticed premature and fast 120 degree phase swings on
successive nights, in contrast to stable phase on a (relatively) nearby
path. That is intriguing  on its own, especially in the absence of
indicators in the Dst and other indices.

Much appreciation to Bob, yourself and others for making these questions
possible.

73,   Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Nicholson
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 12:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: LF: Daytime 29.499 kHz


Jim wrote:

> was the quick phase change of 120 degrees  > corrected prior to
integration?

I'm plotting the signal in 20 minute integrations so there isn't much loss
due to the phase change.

We had about 120 deg phase change on the night of 6th/7th but it took 6
hours, not 2.

Here I plot three nights of opera alongside NAA for comparison of amplitudes

 http://abelian.org/vlf/tmp/29499_140309b.gif

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Paul Nicholson
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