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Re: LF: RE: 8270.0025 Tuesday Apr 19

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Subject: Re: LF: RE: 8270.0025 Tuesday Apr 19
From: Markus Vester <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:07:11 -0400
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Hi Jim,
 
the transmit antenna is physically larger: The apex of the topload is at 21 m above ground or 12 m above our rooftop. But the wires are sloping downward at steep angles, and the antenna is partly shielded by surrounding houses and trees. The effective height was measured  as 8.7 m at 139 kHz by comparison of received open-circuit voltage versus a small nonresonant loop. I believe that effective height may be about 20% lower at VLF due to more effective shielding from resistive objects, but this difference has not been measured so it's just a guess. 
 
Thanks Paul for the comparison and valuable details regarding spherics blanking.
 
Jim, any plans for VLF activities from your end?
 
73, Markus

 
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Verschickt: Di, 19 Apr 2016 11:22 pm
Betreff: LF: RE: 8270.0025 Tuesday Apr 19

Markus,
 
Nice signal!
 
A question perhaps for Paul or yourself follows:
 
At ~0.22 fT (estimated from Paul’s spectrogram) I expected to see >> 10dB SNR in 278uHz.  10dB SNR is off scale so I looked at the on/off tails and noise, and I still seemed to be off by a substantial amount in the relationship of flux density and SNR in Paul’s spectrogram, but I had not factored in sferic noise and cancellation.
If I assume 30fT/rt-Hz for sferics, and 20dB sferic noise cancellation in a clipper, then a 0.22fT signal (with 3.0 fT/rt-Hz sferic noise after clipping) would yield roughly 13dB SNR in 278uHz, which seems consistent with Paul’s spectrogram.
 
My question is:
Is 20dB noise reduction a reasonable estimate for the sferic clipper/blanker?
 
I think that I had become accustomed over the winter to seeing near-preamp-noise-limited SNR on a number of VLF receivers, notwithstanding sub-fT/rt-Hz preamp noise levels, and that may explain why I was expecting >>10dB SNR for ~0.22fT and noise in 278 uHz.  If Paul considers the sferic clipper/blanker noise reduction to be roughly 20dB that would explain my overestimate.
 
Nice signal from your (9m?) antenna!
 
73,
Jim AA5BW
 
 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Markus Vester
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 1:25 PM
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Subject: VLF: 8270.0025 Tuesday Apr 19
 
After a couple of minor modifications (different soundcard, thicker piece of wire from the top of the loading coil), I ran a test carrier from 13:15 to 15:15 UT. I briefly ventured pushing the drive up to 0.42 A (= 30.0 kV rms) with no adverse effects, but then settled to 0.35 A to have a bit of margin for the long transmission. Unfortunately not much appeared in Heidelberg and Breclav in the upcoming afternoon QRN. But then, looking at Paul's spectrogram saved my day:
 
All the best,
Markus (DF6NM)

 
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