Re: VLF: Carrier on 4470.005 Hz!

[Markus Vester <markusvester@aol.com>]

I have managed to resonate my antenna and started a carrier on 4470.0025 Hz since 13:07 UT. Antenna current is 0.16 A into 8 m effective height. Hope that it might also become visible on DL0AO, and perhaps provide an improved calibration reference for propagation from Heidelberg.  

Best 73,
Markus


-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
Von: Markus Vester <markusvester@aol.com>
An: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Verschickt: So, 20. Aug 2017 11:11
Betreff: Re: VLF: Carrier on 4470.005 Hz!

Hi Stefan,

this morning, an unambiguous peak has come up on the DL0AO cardioid in 31 uHz: 
http://df6nm.bplaced.net/dl0ao/VLFgrabber/vlfgrabber_dl0ao_test.htm
The signal level (-140 dB) seems to be similar to that previously observed on 3675 Hz (noting that the gain of the synthetic cardioid summation has since been reduced by 6 dB to make it equal to the single antennas).  We can probably hope for improved SNR during the day.

Well done again!

Best 73,
Markus (DF6NM)   


-----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
Von: DK7FC <selberdenken@posteo.de>
An: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Verschickt: Sa, 19. Aug 2017 15:01
Betreff: Re: VLF: Carrier on 4470.005 Hz!

...Rather 5 uW.

Am 19.08.2017 14:28, schrieb DK7FC:

Hello VLF,

I un-wound the defective stack of the large coil which was used for 2970 Hz. It took about 4 hours to carefully unwound about 1000 turns, or about 1 km of wire. The wire will be used for new coils which are already planned.

Now, the remaining 4 stacks should hold at least 15 kV. I connected the coil to the antenna and found the resonance close to 4470 Hz.
Now i'm running (since 12 UTC) a carrier transmission on 4470.005 Hz. The antenna current is just 150 mA. That's an ERP of about 3 uW. A first signal on the 67 km band from here :-)
Let's see how long it holds until there is the next fault :-/

Reports/Spectrograms welcome...

As usual there is a monitoring of the signal in 3.5 km distance from my tree grabber: http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaefer_vlf/DK7FC_VLF_Grabber2.html

73, Stefan

Am 13.08.2017 22:17, schrieb DK7FC:

The repetition of yesterdays message failed. At 15:38 UTC the safety function tripped. I've just been on the roof, when re-starting the transmission i can see a spark in the center of one of the stacks. So now there is another one which has a flash over! :-(
It must be replaced, which is a lot of work. So the tranmissions on 3675 Hz will stopp for some time. At least we have some carrier detections and even EbNaut decodes.

I need to think about a different coil concept.... More current, more voltage, more power, more more more!