[Lowfer] MP 137 kHz

[John Andrews]

Mitch,

It showed 780.55 on my semi-calibrated receiver at the camp last week. 
Here at home, using a 1 kHz marker from the GPS-disciplined 10 MHz box, 
I get 780.61.

JA

On 8/17/2011 7:51 PM, Mitch Powell wrote:
> 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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