Re: LF: EbNaut March 31 / April 1

[Riccardo Zoli <riccardozoli80@gmail.com>]

Hi LF!

Many thanks to Jay, Alex and Markus.

Markus (with Jay), congrats for your TA and thanks to everyone for reports and decoding efforts.

Ok, Jay. I'm ready for another attempt, with the same QRG (137522.000313 Hz) and EbNaut coding parameters.

GE and Happy Easter to all

73 de Riccardo IW4DXW

Il Dom 1 Apr 2018, 17:15 jrusgrove@comcast.net <jrusgrove@comcast.net> ha scritto:

Markus, Riccardo & EbNaut enthusiasts

 

Rob wasn't transmitting last night so gibberish was the correct decode ;~) .

 

Will look for you and Riccardo tonight if you're active. Thanks for the heads up on DF2JP ... will make sure I have sufficient bins to cover his frequency.

 

Happy Easter to all!

 

Jay W1VD 

 

 

 

 

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From: Markus Vester <markusvester@aol.com>

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Subject: Re: LF: EbNaut March 31 / April 1

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Thanks very much to Jay and Alex for those fine reports!

After I shut down I got excellent decodes from Riccardo at 5 and 6 UT, with perfectly flat phase after sunrise. He is putting out a good signal so I'm sure Jay will catch him sooner or later.

I did look for Rob on 137490 Hz during odd half hours but unfortunately got only gibberish this time.

Unfortunately the wind picked up this morning and tore off two wires from my topload, so I had to take down what is left of the transmit antenna. If it calms down and I manage to repair it I may get on 137520 again later tonight.

Jay you may need even more bins: DF2JP is currently working on taming his oscillator, if he succeeds he may finally fire up on 137524 Hz.

73 and Happy Easter to all,
Markus

PS: Alex, if you have access to those nasty energy saving lamps, there's a neat trick to push their chopper frequency a couple of kHz out of band: glue on a small magnet near the electronics, so that it partly saturates the little ferrite toroid in the oscillator. This is not an April joke, it worked several times for me.

Re[2]: LF: EbNaut March 31 / April 1 
Von: Alex K <rn3aus@gmail.com>
An: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>; Markus Vester <markusvester@aol.com>; Riccardo Zoli <riccardozoli80@gmail.com>
Datum: So, 1. Apr 2018 12:35
Anhang   df6nm.png (20 KB) IW4DXW.png (20 KB) 

Hello LF, Markus, Ric

I downloaded opds *.txt file from my old automatic LF-grabber in KO85fn http://rn3aus.136.su/grabber.html
and then I have some decodes of ebnaut transmissions df6nm and iw4dxw last night.

Unfortunately noise level from energy-saving lamps around grabber is very high at night time. So only morning time give me decode...

73 de rn3aus/Alex


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Betreff: Re: LF: EbNaut March 31 / April 1

Markus, Riccardo & EbNaut enthusiasts

 

DF6NM Markus 2 decodes ... 0100 and 0300. IW4DXW Riccardo 0 decodes ;~( . For 0100 and 0200 it was 'one or the other' (too few bins for both) ... looked for DF6NM 0100 and IW4DXW 0200. For 0300 and 0400 there were sufficient bins to look for both. There likely would have been another DF6NM decode from 0200 transmission. Noise picked up as the night went on. Two DF6NM decodes shown below.

 

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2