[Lowfer] SAQ TEST TRANSMISSION 2012-01-12

[Douglas D. Williams]

Not much here either John...after I got home and checked the screen
captures. I thought I might have seen a trace or two around transmission
time, but cannot be sure. Plenty of QRN here, even now. Sounds like a whole
skillet of bacon frying if I listen through the soundcard from 0-25kHz.

Doug KB4OER

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Jay wrote:
> >>>Ground control to major Tom
> >>>Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
>
> Protein pills--THAT'S what I forgot!  ;)
>
> And I probably put the helmet on wrong way around in the pre-dawn darkness,
> too, 'cause I didn't notice the shorting strap was still in place until
> well
> into the half hour.
>
> I heard plenty of QRN, though, so "shorting" is definitely a relative term
> at RF.  Using the stations between 20 and 30 kHz as a before-and-after
> guide, there was a good 50 dB attenuation with the strap in place...which
> is
> to say, the static crashes pinned the S-meter without the strap, and were
> "only" about S9+20 with it "shorted."  There's no way to actually hear SAQ
> under all that, either way.  I did see a badly broken line on the waterfall
> display during the early part of the scheduled time slot, roughly 12 to 16
> Hz above the nominal frequency, but have no idea whether that was them.
>
> Laurence, I'm delighted to hear there were no Alphas at your site either.
>  I
> wondered if it was them or me.
>
> At that time of morning I wasn't copying many of the naval stations from
> the
> east...just Cutler at 24 khz (+60!) and Aguada on 40.7 or 40.8 kHz, so far
> as I can tell.  But the Pacific was open!  If I'm identifying them
> correctly, Exmouth (19.8), Jim Creek (24.8), Lualualei (21.4) and perhaps
> Okinawa (54 kHz) were the powerhouses, in descending order of signal
> strength.  There was MSK or FSK weakly present on 22.2 (JJI?),  25.6 (3SB,
> Datong?), and 26.6 (CAA2A, Santiago, Chile?).  And, there was a very nice
> signal on 28.4, but I find conflicting information as to which site that
> is.
>
> I haven't explored this frequency range enough lately.  Can anyone refer me
> to a current and authoritative source on frequencies and modes?
>
> 73
> John
>
>
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