Greetings, everyone!

As I make incremental improvements in my station here in Hendersonville, NC, and as the season

progresses, I'm getting better results on my overnight WSPR runs. On Wednesday, I changed a couple

of connections out at the coil to provide a better ground resistance as well as a tighter connection

at the coil tap point. I was using a small alligator clip that had a weak spring and didn't bite too hard.

I cranked up the amplifier voltage, and thereby its output, but my calculations didn't include my coil losses,

so I will re-rerun my numbers and adjust accordingly.

That said, I was heard by 39 uniques across 1387 spots, with the best DX being 1474km. I heard 14 uniques

across 340 spots, with the best DX at 2012km (W5GNB in SE NM !). In looking at the resulting map on

WSPRnet, I note that there were basically no stations (either way) south of me, and I think that may have

been due to a cold front that swept the region overnight along an east-west line that drifted south - we had

some rain around 0615-0730Z. The 195 foot horizontal leg of my inverted-L at 60 feet runs 340 degrees (~NNE).

I'm also planning on reworking my receive bandpass filter which, when initially tested early last week, exhibited

about 20dB attenuation across the band as displayed by my P3 Panadaptor's noise floor. I found the necessary

coax adapters and a fairly precise 50 Ohm terminator and discovered that the filter has a single, sharp response

at 467 kHz, so I will be tweaking turns, etc. to set it up correctly. It will help reduce gain compression caused by

a very strong NDB at a nearby airport.

Very 73,

Brandy, N1HO (EM85sg)