[Lowfer] 2IQ hifer test in progress

[Bill de Carle]

Excellent results, Lyle!  I didn't know the exact freq at the time I
started up.  Eventually the Epson oscillator stabilized at 6776.7925 Khz.
When no one responded I thought about publishing the exact freq and the
run length, but I guess it wasn't necessary.  Not bad communication in
terms of miles per milliwatt, eh?  I can receive it locally with a
delay of about 1 msec using GPS sync.  I'll leave it running for a
while.

Thanks for the report,
Bill VE2IQ

At 05:21 PM 2/17/2004 -0600, Lyle wrote:
>I didn't try for 2IQ until late this afternoon. As soon as I started
>AFRICAM, I got the following copy:
>
>AFRICAM log opened: Wed Feb 11 2004  at 16:32 Local Time
>16:32:48  0P4S% [0A]ello wor[01][0A]PeQaj 0IQ BPSK  Helnnz)GToa ero1 2Is
>16:33:09   BPS@  Hello worl y rom 2IQ BPSK  Hello wor[0F]d:frjm 2IQ BPSK
>16:33:32    He lp wnrl[09]_9rom 2IQ BPSK  Hello world erom 2IQ BPSK  Hel
>16:33:56  lo [01]ojed frlm 2IQ BTSit =7FelDd"world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello wo
>16:34:19  rld from 2IQ BP[0A]A[08]=7F=7F`lE=7F3[1D][0A](lv from 2Is BRSK =
 He[08]
>16:34:39  lo world fro/lsIA BPSK  Ac[1B].[0E] or;ta`to=7Ft[04]H' BRSK  Heo
>16:35:01  :o world2I[12]lm vs] BPSK  [09]eloj2=3D[07]rud*hrtm [12][0B]s[0A]
>16:35:19  BP [08]Z<i .n9iljygsX@tiT:p #i
>
>Playing with the parameters didn't bring about much improvement, although=
 it
>did seem to help to set "FCAR" to 799 Hz, based on the numbers that were
>jumping around on the screen. I went away and left things running for a
>while. Still no perfect copy of the message, but since I could count the
>characters, I set up first for GRAB 27:5, which was *almost* solid, and=
 then
>tried GRAB 27:9 with this result:
>
>AFRICAM log opened: Wed Feb 11 2004  at 17:10 Local Time
>17:10:49  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello wo
>17:11:14  rld from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from
>17:11:38   2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPS
>17:12:03  K  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello
>17:12:28   world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello world from 2IQ BPSK  Hello
>
>Lyle, K0LR