[Lowfer] TAG

[Bill Ashlock]

John,

>TAG was off last night. It's back on now, and will be there for a few days.
>To make it easy to identify, I am running DFCW with 0.1 Hz shift. Dots are
>on 135922.0, and dashes on 135922.1. The elements are 120 seconds long, and
>look fine on a 60 second screen. Power is still 0 dBm.

Good news/bad news: I told you this morning that I that I couldn't find my 
overnight captures of TAG. I found them tonight but TAG is, at best, very 
weak. This includes the captures tonight at 7:00.

Do you have a way of checking your signal level at 300m? 0dbm for a power 
input may be too low when one accounts for the reduction in antenna 
efficiency. I just changed to 137.734 in order to get away from that local 
carrier near 127k that I mentioned over the weekend and find I'm about 2X 
too strong here at work.  I'll back this down when I get home. (SORRY FCC)  
This will make WA about 32x below the normal signal level in uv/m. Let's 
see; that's a power ratio of ~1000 to 1 so your 0dbm is close to what I will 
be sending once I make that 2x correction. I'll check the numbers out in 
more detail later.

Bill

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