Re: LF: EbNaut 137.477 kHz 1 Dec

[Domenico IZ7SLZ <iz7slz.domenico@gmail.com>]

Hello Joe & all,

With pleasure, i was able to decode VO1NA EbNaut message last night three times:

UTC      Eb/N0 [dB]    Eb/N0 carrier [dB]

22.30     3.5                    3.9
23.00     1.0                    1.7
02.00     0.7                    1.0

time and frequency offsets used are pratically the nominals values.

My locator is JN80nu so QRB is 5426 km: not bad for a message of 63 characters on LF sent in less than 30 minutes !

Antenna used here: inv-L 8 meters (my TX ant used untuned), receiver JRC NRD-92M.

In the qsl.net folder:

http://qsl.net/iz7slz/VO1NA

i have uploaded the .wave files related to the above listed decodes. So whom is interested,  can try and test EbNaut-rx program. There are also some txt files. These are the FFT raw data coming from the Spectrum Lab OPDS session recordered last night. These files can be converted in "EbNaut-ready" audio files by using DF6NM's program ebnaut_ifft3.exe. In the folder,  this program is included together with the configuration file sr.txt in use on my setup.

So Joe, again thanks for your EbNaut activity, hoping to get soon an Rx operator from the other side of the pond.

73, Domenico iz7slz

On 3 December 2016 at 00:57, <jcraig@mun.ca> wrote:

Hi Markus, group.

Just confrimed that it is indeed 4K19A being transmitted.
Sorry for the careless proofreading of my emails!

Thank-you very much for the pilot tone suggestion.  That
simplifies things greatly and with any luck there will be
an EbNaut RX here soon.

Cheers
Joe

On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, Markus Vester wrote:

Hi Joe,

a fax of Tangles' forehead

Yes those lines on the narrow spectrogram were indeed reminiscent of cat's whiskers ;-)

use the stable DOXCO to divide out or synthesise an LO signal and mix it in an SBL-3 as Stefan has done

But that would imply building a complete LF receiver from scratch, including an image reject filter and some gain stages. A possibly quicker alternative might be to use your existing receiver and only inject an weak pilot tone from your DDS (eg. 137500 Hz) to the antenna, and then engage SpecLab's frequency offset detector to eliminate any receiver drift. That way soundcard samplerate drift won't be corrected, but that will have little effect as long as the difference between the pilot and the desired signal frequencies is less than a couple of 100 Hz. I have successfully employed that method on MF to compensate the significant drift of my freerunning FiFi-SDR, and was able to decode a number of EbNaut transmissions (including yours) around 477.7 kHz.

Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)


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Hi Markus and Stefan,

Thank-you for for your efforts in receiving and decoding the message. This
is encouraging -- it's good to know everyhing still works after the
hardware clean-up in the shack. I'll take care of forwarding the message
to Poldhu.

The slope and bends in the high res bpsk specrogram were intentional.
The element period T increased as a function of time and the bends are
actually curves due to the 1/T relation of the sideband deviation
from the carrier frequency I think.

It was a (poor) attempt to send a fax of Tangles' forehead (see
attached). She has been reminding me that she is interested in
getting a message from Gizmo and so I've been giving some thought
about reception. An idea is to use the stable DOXCO to divide out or
synthesise an LO signal and mix it in an SBL-3 as Stefan has done,
then to feed the product and a reference into the Spectrum Lab.

73 & TNX AGN
Joe VO1NA

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