LF: MF opera8 from VO1NA in JN80nu

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

Hi MF,

dear Joe, thanks to good propagation conditions and very low QRN, your opera8 signal has been detected last night by my receiver here in JN80 using Markus' OPDS program:

2017-12-01 05:00:09 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz  12mHz -40.5dBOp 100% 15.9dB
2017-12-01 04:15:09 VO1NA   5426km 478476.998Hz  10mHz -39.4dBOp 100% 16.8dB
2017-12-01 04:00:10 VO1NA   5426km 478476.998Hz  10mHz -42.0dBOp  81% 16.6dB
2017-12-01 03:45:10 VO1NA   5426km 478476.998Hz   7mHz -40.4dBOp  78% 16.2dB
2017-12-01 03:15:10 VO1NA   5426km 478476.998Hz   7mHz -42.2dBOp  93% 16.3dB
2017-12-01 02:30:09 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz   7mHz -40.1dBOp 100% 18.8dB
2017-12-01 02:15:09 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz  14mHz -36.7dBOp 100% 17.6dB
2017-12-01 02:00:10 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz  12mHz -39.7dBOp  90% 16.7dB
2017-12-01 01:30:09 VO1NA   5426km 478476.998Hz   5mHz -42.9dBOp 100% 15.1dB
2017-12-01 00:30:10 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz  10mHz -39.6dBOp 100% 17.0dB
2017-11-30 23:45:10 VO1NA   5426km 478477.000Hz   8mHz -40.1dBOp  78% 15.9dB
2017-11-30 20:14:11 SV8CS    466km 478498.835Hz  10mHz -24.0dBOp 100% 18.7dB
2017-11-30 19:58:10 SV8CS    466km 478498.757Hz 570mHz -99.9dBOp  93% 20.9dB

I got also a deep search detection using OPERA program running in same Windows pc

02:30    477 VO1NA Op8 Deep Search -39 dB 1477.1 Hz  
***********  01/12/2017  *********** 

RX is the same JRC that i use for LF, so it is referenced with external 10 MHz derived from GPS. Antenna is a miniwhip.

Audio is pre-conditioned by Paul Nicholson's Noise Blanker and sent to Win Xp PC with 'vtvorbis'.

73, Domenico IZ7SLZ