[Lowfer] THOR5 QSO

[lloyd chastant]

Pretty good copy here guys
Lloyd W3NF

.... we2xgr/3 DE WG2XJM
GE JOHN. SOLID CPI HR. SNR ABT +10. PROBABLY HAVE GOOD CPI AT NEXT SPEED
TOO.
LSNING ON EAST BEV ANT. 5W ERP.

HW?

WE2XGR/3 DE WG2XJM KN

...XJM de XGR/3 GE Eric. very nice signal on peaks, avg about 7 dB. Running
250 watts to big loop ant. Using small loop for receive, to null out some
local broadcast crud.
Don't know my ERP for sure. The big loop is the King of Fading, though,
with lots of high angle radiation.  btu Eric WG2XJM de WE2XGR/3 k


... XGR/3 de WG2XJM
Perfect copy on all, John.  Your signal peaks around +14 dB, little QSB.
Wonder if there is any multi-path, though we might be too close for any
evident multi.  Power to
antenna hr abt 78W.  Just added a couple fans to EB-63 amp when running
beacon to keep things cool.

Want to try shifting up to THOR11?  I believe THOR11 uses the same
bandwidth at half the tone steps, approx double data rate.

XGR/3 de WG2XJM kn

...XJM de XGR/3  - Nice copy again, Eric. No holes, though I did see a
couple when you were beaconing earlier. This path would have a lot of
skywave at night. Using a Hafler
§6ikt <SUB> b9 ŒŽI  ¿y<ETB>gr  Inêp4 tÀa,! Go ahead with THOR 11, and let's
see.  btu Eric WG2XJM de WE2XGR/3 k

Shift to THOR11....

Solid copy on all, John.  This will probably have some noticeable speed
increase, hi.  I've looked for that Hafler amp on Ebay a couple times,
might invest in one down the
road.  The HP amp hr is a converted SB-1000, but haven't been using it much
lately.  Mostly sticking to 1-5W ERP.

It will be interesting to test a narrower version of THOR.  I have to
figure out the best way to build a Windows binary after modifying the
source.  I assume with how well WSPR
does with it's narrow shifts that a narrow THOR would do as well.

hw cpi?

XGR/3 de WG2XJM kn


...WG2XJM DE WE2XGR/3 fb Eric, still solid copy, and of course much faster.
There is a carrier here about 80 Hz above center, but it isn't bothering
you. The Haflers are
interesting. I have a 9505 here like Jay's, but it5   xt  t  tvn0m. Because
of the odd loop antenna, ERP isn't easy to calculate, and probably has to
be measured.

Dunno hof ea zndt would be to come up with the narrower version. Probably a
lot easier to stick in the Linux domain, but that surely isn't my thing!
The bW of THOR 11 appears
to be identical, 200Hz total. That's not bad, but this little band could
get kinda full if it ever becomes a ham band. The error correction in this
mode is really nice, and is
very well suited to the fading and noise at 630m.

 btu Eric WG2XJM de WE2XGR/3 k






On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Eric NO3M <no3m at no3m.net> wrote:

> Hello All
>
> Thanks for all the reports so far on the THOR5 beacon reception. Some
> amazing results.
>
> At approx. 0130Z, QRG 476.6 kHz (same as current beacon freq.), John,
> WE2XGR/3, and WG2XJM will attempt a THOR5 QSO.  Mode will start out at
> THOR5, may shift during course of QSO.
>
> 73 Eric NO3M / WG2XJM
>
>
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