[600MRG] Reception success in spite of TXing with my cw beacon all night...

[Neil Klagge]

It is 330 AM here at my qth. Couldn't sleep, LOL'

Went to the shack to find this F1 on my screen:
0440 -17 0.2 1301 ` CQ W7LUX DM45

0444 -17  0.2 1301 `  CQ W7LUX DM45

0446 -18  0.1 1301 `  CQ W7LUX DM45      ? a1

0456 -16  0.1 1301 `  W0IOO W7LUX 73

0518 -16  0.2 1302 `  CQ W7LUX DM45

0536 -17  0.1 1300 `  CQ W7LUX DM45

0542 -20  0.2 1300 `  CQ W7LUX DM45

I have been running my cw beacon all night on 474.2 kHz and was afraid that it would obliterate any reception of F1, FW2, FW5 or WSPR, but it did not. I shifted my rx IF up 500 hz last night in hopes that would help reception, and apparently it did.

Here is my FW2 reception:
0546 -3 0.1 1538 ` KA7OEI DN40 23

0554  -3  0.1 1538 `  KA7OEI DN40 23

0604  -3  0.1 1538 `  KA7OEI DN40 23

0606  -3  0.1 1538 `  KA7OEI DN40 23

0614  -3  0.1 1538 `  KA7OEI DN40 23

...and my WSPR2 reception summary from wsprnet data...

3 spots:

Timestamp       Call    MHz     SNR     Drift   Grid    Pwr     Reporter        RGrid   km      az      Mode    # Spots
 2023-01-21 07:10        VE7BDQ          0.475729        -25     0       CN89la          1       W0YSE   DN41ah          1218    131     W-2     8
 2023-01-21 06:08        W7LUX   0.475787        -22     -1      DM45dc          0.5     W0YSE   DN41ah          691     358     W-2     15
 2023-01-21 05:32        KA7OEI          0.475739        0       0       DN40ao          0.2     W0YSE   DN41ah          79      0       W-2


Got one local report on my CW beacon from Mike, KZ7O so far this morning. Hope to get more reports. I have a second wire installed on my roof to be used as an additional top load wire. It is not yet connected to the rest of the antenna until I modify my base loading coil.

73...
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(¸.•´ (¸.•`   Neil , wØyse, DN41ah, North Ogden, Utah 84414

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