[Lowfer] Clipper

[Andy - KU4XR]

--- On Mon, 12/20/10, John Bruce McCreath <weazle at hurontel.on.ca> wrote:

> The addition of the limiter/clipper seems to have solved the problem 
> with one exception.  My local Navtex station is about 100 miles from 
> my QTH and just thunders in as would be expected.  Since adding the
> limiter/clipper I don't get decodes of it, and I'm thinking that the
> signal must be getting trashed by the limiter/clipper.
>
> 73, J.B., VE3EAR
> 
> LowFER Beacon "EAR"
> 188.830 kHz. QRSS30
> EN93dr


J.B.

Have you ever watched " Gallagher " and his wonderful watermelon 
demonstration of the marvelous kitchen utensil "The Sledge-O-Matic"??

That's pretty much what's happening to the super strong local signal
when you apply the Limiter/Clipper ( Sledge-O-Matic ) to it... :~D

Andy 


--- On Mon, 12/20/10, John Bruce McCreath <weazle at hurontel.on.ca> wrote:

> From: John Bruce McCreath <weazle at hurontel.on.ca>
> Subject: [Lowfer] Clipper
> To: "& UK) and MedFer bands Discussion of the Lowfer (US European" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, December 20, 2010, 10:48 AM
> Hello Lowfers,
> 
> My wife gave me a pre-Chistmas gift of a ROUND TUIT to keep
> me from shaking and x-raying the gifts under the tree.
> The first thing I did with the TUIT was to make up a
> resistor-diode pair limiter/clipper circuit and I installed
> it on the 
> input of my DSP-59+ which was being over-driven by some
> signals, causing the overload LED to light.  If I
> turned
> down the gain of the RX I started losing weaker
> stations.  The addition of the limiter/clipper seems to
> have solved
> the problem with one exception.  My local Navtex
> station is about 100 miles from my QTH and just thunders in
> as
> would be expected.  Since adding the limiter/clipper I
> don't get decodes of it, and I'm thinking that the signal
> must
> be getting trashed by the limiter/clipper.  It has
> made for much improved decodes on all other signals that
> I've had
> a chance to try receiving since installing it, including
> WSPR.
> 

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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