[Boatanchors] Re: [AWA] SAQ Transmissions on 17.2KHz

[Edward J White]

Anybody have a great antenna to receive SAQ?
I would be interested
Ed
WA3BZT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <skywaves at webex.net>
To: <antiquewirelessassociation at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Boatanchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:18 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Re: [AWA] SAQ Transmissions on 17.2KHz


> Hi Chris, et al,
>
> I don't want to discourage you, but SAQ has been pretty elusive in North 
> America.  Your wire antenna might be OK if you're in a really quiet place. 
> For most of us, some kind of loop is our only hope.  There's coverage of 
> my last successful effort in 1998, including an audio recording and 
> spectrogram, on John Dilks' website at:
> http://www.eht.com/oldradio/awa/events/grimeton/grimeton.htm
>
> I'd suggest that anyone intending to listen for SAQ should make a band 
> scan now, see what common stations they can hear, and tweak their station 
> for better performance.
>
> Here's an example.  The station is essentially as described in the link 
> above.  I can hear atmospheric noise on 17.2 rather than just AC buzz. 
> Stated signal to noise ratios are how far the signal stands above the 
> adjacent noise as indicate by Richard Horne's Spectrogram program. See: 
> http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram.html
>
> Flemington, NJ 17:30 EDT, 30 June 2005:
>
> 100KHz Loran-C Pulse Modulation S/N = 15dB
> 60Khz WWVB 1Hz Pulse Amplitude Mod. S/N = 20dB
> 24KHz NAA MSK (FSK)(weak right now) S/N = 20dB
> 18.3 Prob. HWU (France) MSK S/N = 6-8dB
>
> Other easily heard stations all MSK/FSK
>
> 37.5KHz NRK, Iceland
> 40.75 NAU, Puerto Rico
> 73.60 CFH, Halifax, NS
>
> Good luck to all.  Get down to the coast is you can, I'm 50 miles inland.
>
> 73,
> Al
>
> Al Klase - N3FRQ
> Flemington, NJ
> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
>
> Christian R. Fandt wrote:
>> Al and everybody,
>>
>> I just recently got my RBL-3 *finally* debugged, cleaned-up, and running 
>> quietly (intermittent shorted bypass cap, and I mean *intermittent*, dang 
>> it! :-)
>>
>> Anyway, although I have so far to now, a long wire antenna running 
>> East-West about 130 feet horizontal, I would like to try the rig out by 
>> hunting SAQ........
>>
>
>> Also, would I expect very sloooow CW like some of the government VLF sigs 
>> from the past, or would it sound like a rather normal fist?
>
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