Your report is gratefully received, Paul. The TX is still on and
the coil gets a just a bit warm with the 1/3 A of RF. I am resisting
the urge to muck about with it further while it still works.
Markus and Stefan are due much gratitude for their valuble advice and
suggestions. I feel like a graduate student at times, being gently nudged
towards more productive paths.
I'm now looking at Rb standards to replace the DOCXO. In the mean time, a
NEO7 has been ordered. The hardware to fix last winter's damage to
the big (20x100m) RL is on hand. Courage for the tower climb is building.
This should result in a 6 dB improvement in ERP.
73 Joe VO1NA
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Paul Nicholson wrote:
Joe wrote (July 3rd):
The TX is now on 8270.007 +- a few ppb.
Nothing detected overnight 3rd/4th but a nice signal
4th/5th at 0.13 fT, S/N poor due to high noise - only
about 10.3 dB in 46.3 uHz.
Spectrum peaks at 8270.0070865 +/- 0.5 uHz.
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Paul Nicholson
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