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Joe,
great! We'll see whether we'll see something ;-)
The visual eclipse started here a few minutes ago.
Perfect sunny weather, now off to the garden with the scope and the attenuator
foil.
Thanks a lot,
Markus
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: LF: Eclipse/137.777 kHz
Hi
Markus,
The carrier was switched on at 0830. A weak trace appeared
on your
grabber overnight.
73
Joe
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015,
Markus Vester wrote:
> Yes grabber is working ok but not a trace here
yet, propagation must indeed be down. DF2JP http://www.df2jp.dxx.eu/lwgrabber.html
shows a relatively weak and spread out signal on 137777.
>
>
Northerly Loran traces on 100 kHz have been weaker than normal and exhibit more
irregular skywave variations.
>
> Best 73,
>
Markus
>
>
>
>
> From: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, March 20,
2015 1:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
>
Subject: Re: LF: Eclipse/137.777 kHz
>
>
> GM
Markus,
>
> With your encouragement, let's try try a carrier
starting 0845 while
> monitoring the tuning.
>
> I've seen no
traces on any grabbers on your side of the pond so far,
> but we can
hope.
>
> 73
> nJoe
>
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015,
Markus Vester wrote:
>
>> Joe,
>>
>> thanks,
good that you are intending to get on, despite those difficulties! I hope we can
catch possible irregularities on your signal tomorrow morning. Of course it
would be ideal to have that straight carrier - considering your usual signal
strength you would probably still be easily observable if you reduced your power
by a factor of two pr three.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
Markus
>>
>>
>>
>> From: [email protected]
>> Sent: Friday, March
20, 2015 1:04 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>>
Subject: LF: Eclipse/137.777 kHz
>>
>>
>> Dear
Group,
>>
>> A trip up the hill in deep snow with a wattmeter
confirmed the
>> RL was seriously detuned with ice. The original 100m
wire was
>> also iced and of little use until it was retuned. The
forecast
>> is for 1C tonight so if the ice melts, the RL will be
energised.
>>
>> The plan is to keep QRSS100 on for the night
and duration of
>> the eclipse. A 2 hour carrier was planned, but this
is risky.
>> A sharp drop in the Kyoto DST 2 days ago and the aerial
ice
>> is mother nature's way of making the eclipse
experiment
>> challenging!
>>
>> 73 and good luck
with the eclipse! Hope my sigs help.
>>
>> Joe
VO1NA
>>
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