[Lowfer] Whose on 185.301

Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:50:24 -0600

Could this be the future signal for summertime noise and still be seen far
away???

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Mad Looper goes wide.

Mike>WE0H

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Bill Ashlock
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Lowfer] Whose on 185.301

Paul, John:

>>I see you in there John!

>Bill is currently making that sine wave, which is swinging from about
>185299.5 to 185300.15.

I just returned for Vermont where we stayed a B and B west of Woodstock on
Saturday night.  I finally got the chance to check out the laptop computer
with ARGO and the R-75 connected to the magmount E-probe - in the parking
lot, yet. The path is far less than ideal with mountains covering over half
of the 120 mile distance. The signal from WA was surprisingly strong ( best
described as 'thick') with very little QSB evident. John, TAG pretty was
decent as well, with some QSB. I'll send you a copy. Interesting how ARGO
calculates the strength of TAG just a bit less than WA. but WA knocks you
over with it's boldness. Must have something to do with slope of the
modulation.

This morning I checked the signal in a parking lot just north of Woodstock
and fond WA at least as strong as Sat night with no QSB (so assume a surface
wave signal). Just for the heck of it I drove to downtown Woodstock and
parked in the midst of 3 story buildings. The signal was way down in
strength but still recognizable.

I'm actually sending a triangular FM signal, not a sine. The frequency is
~.005 Hz via a wavetek sig gen. ARGO must be rounding the slope transitions.
>From experiments at home it looks like ARGO responds much better to
constant
slope FM than a sine with variable slope. It's interesting that ARGO
produces such a wide trace on the screen, even if the signal is weak.  I'll
be getting rid of the signal gen tonight and use the computer to generate
the slant modulation along with some breaks in the signal to make it look
like a WA.

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