[Lowfer] "T" and "SL" Last Night in CA

[Roger Stevens]

Hi Steve,

I am not a Ham.  My interest is LF &VLF reception.  I do report WSPR 
spots as RLS.
I will be looking for you tonight.  What was your ERP last night?

Roger


On 4/8/2013 12:42 PM, Steve wrote:
> Thanks Roger - it sounds as though you have a great working system 
> there and it obviously performs very well. Even more impressive in 
> that it is all homebrew!!
> It's nice to see some new LF activity from California. At one time it 
> was the hotbed of LF action for the entire continent.
> Hopefully we can have a QSO on 600m when it is approved here and in 
> the U.S.
>
> Thanks for the info. I may be on again tonight, running at just10W 
> out, if there appears to be a lot of weather-related QRN back east.
>
> Steve / 73
>
> BTW....what is your call?
>
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Antenna is home brew active whip (designed  and installed in 1980).
>>
>> Receiver is home brew breadboard SDR with DDS LO.  I really need to
>> make new PC boards for the SDR and package it in some sort of enclosure,
>> but since the breadboard is running OK I would rather be designing 
>> other stuff.
>>
>> The current DDS has pretty good thermal performance but I am 
>> planning  to stabilize
>> it with my GPS disciplined oscillator. The DDS is currently manually 
>> tuned with an encoder.
>>
>> I plan to update the firmware so that the SDR can be controlled by 
>> HDSDR via Omni-Rig.
>>
>> I have played with LF and VLF  (receive only) since 1980. My wife 
>> thinks beacon hunting
>> is a very strange hobby. She cannot believe that anybody would listen 
>> to static.
>> With the SDR I showed her that not only can I listen to static but 
>> now I can look at it.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/8/2013 11:39 AM, Steve wrote:
>>> Thanks Roger...nice captures!  Can you tell me about your RX system?
>>>
>>> Steve / VE7SL
>>>
>>> PS...it is VE7BDQ (B.C.)
>>>
>>>
>>>> VE6BDQ "T"  QRSS60 and VE7SL  DFCW60 at approx 136.173 KHZ  night 
>>>> of 4/7
>>>> Z in northern California (CM88on).
>>>> "T" from 0243Z to 0940Z and "SL" from 0308Z to 0556Z.
>>>>
>>>> Roger
>>>>
>>>
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