R: LF: MF WSPR

["marcocadeddu@tin.it" <marcocadeddu@tin.it>]

Hi Stefan, MF,

the grabber resurrects after the winter rest ;-) compliments for good performance.

I'm still running 24/24 WSPR beacon on MF since almost 3 months without interruptions (only exception sometime the windows 10 strike ;-) ) it is a relative low power beacon that anyway was heard sometime beyond the pond but since about a week I had no reports neither from TF3GZ nor from W or VE station.. last night also the reports from EA8 were missing...

It is hard to state if it is due to propagation, environment (my location is close to Alps and I remember troubles both TX and RX on 160m ) or maybe speaking of SNR the noise level is higher than one week ago making my sigs not decodable..

Anyway it is fun keep such a beacon in function and see what happens

Marco, IK1HSS

----Messaggio originale----
Da: selberdenken@posteo.de
Data: 5-feb-2019 9.25
A: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Ogg: LF: MF WSPR





MF, 

Since yesterday, there is some sun in Heidelberg and my tree grabber
came back. MF reception is possible again (the VLF E field still has a
problem).
http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/schaefer_vlf/DK7FC_remote_Grabber.html

Last night i got my best RX distance on MF ever (i think):

Timestamp	Call	MHz	SNR	Drift	Grid	Pwr	Reporter	RGrid	km	az
2019-02-05 06:12	WA4SZE	0.475703	-29	0	EM65	0.2	DK7FC/P	JN49ik	7470	45

The band still seems to be open for DX.

73, Stefan