[Lowfer] MP 137 kHz

[Mitch Powell]

John - do you mean spot on 137780.5  ?  Trying to reset the DDS since the power dropout.
My ARGO reads it at 137780.47 presently.

Mitch


On 2011-08-17, at 6:42 PM, John Andrews wrote:

> JD,
> 
> The 2200M version of MP was nice copy day and night at our Maine QTH 
> last week. Mitch's frequency was pretty much spot-on at the time.
> 
> JA
> 
> On 8/17/2011 5:49 PM, JD wrote:
>> MP, the undisputed 2200 m powerhouse at this location during months with an
>> "r" in them, had been absent for about 60 or 70 days now.  Propagation has
>> been poor in the (comparatively quiet) daytime, while static levels have
>> been consistently high at night.  Given the dreadful mismatch between my
>> antenna and receiver, it's a miracle if anyone's signal gets up to S2-1/2 at
>> best, so even when storms are 100 or more miles distant and the noise is
>> "only" S9, that has been way too much difference for me to extract anything
>> with Argo.  I've never been able to identify a signal that was more than 3
>> or 4 S-units below impulse noise.
>> 
>> Until last night, that is.  Even though the timing of the dashes matches
>> what I normally see from MP, it's not a very clear ID and could have just
>> been wishful thinking on my part.  I was reluctant to believe this was
>> actually what it appeared to be, until Mitch confirmed for me today that his
>> DDS had indeed been running a few tenths of a Hz high since a recent power
>> dropout.
>> 
>> That kind of made it worthwhile fighting the giant killer vampire mosquitos
>> that were chainsawing their way through the screening over the car windows
>> last night.
>> 
>> John D.
>> 
>> 
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