Hi Stefan its not about super propagation it is about changes, or not as may
be the case. I suspect if you are not in a location where the totality is
the centre of the path you will not see much. The other thing is it is a
completely different effect to sunrise and sunset. As you said once or twice
before if you dont try you never know :-))
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "DK7FC" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: LF: Eclipse March 20th 2015
Hmm, the grabber is run by TF3HZ who is probably reading this mail. But
you can reach his grabber without super propagation as well, at least from
EU on LF, like shown here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19882028/LF/TF3HZ.jpg
He is even running a SNR plot which could be used to show QSB. I could run
a key-down carrier with reduced power to show the QSB... Let's see...
March is still some time...
73, Stefan
Am 12.01.2015 16:37, schrieb Alan Melia:
Hi all, it may not have registered with many yet as it has not made the
National TV news but there is a partial eclipse of the sun due on March
20th 2015.
As part of my involvement with the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee it
occurs to me that this is a fine opportunity to roll out the capabilities
of Opera, and WSPR and the monitoring network on 136 and 477kHz.
The path of the totallity pases due north of the UK with only Shetland
seeing a full eclipse. The majority of the UK is rated around 80% . The
most interesting paths are those from the opposite side of the path of
totality. Unfortunately (or otherwise :-)) ) the only LF-active area on
the other side is Iceland, and I know there is a "grabber" operator
active there. I suggest some interesting results could be obtained if
European stations could be active into the Iceland grabber during the
period of the eclipse which is 07:40 to 11:40 UTC (I think we should be
on GMT still in the UK at that date :-)) ) I am not fully sure what
facilities the Icelandic operator has but maybe someone who knows him
better could liaise a suitable set up.
It is obviouly not as big an event as 1999 but could prove interesting.
Alan Melia
G3NYK
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