[Lowfer] 153 khz

Fri Apr 3 18:48:51 EDT 2015

Not a smudge, whisp, bleg of a signal on both freqs here at dot 600; but being in an another Oceanic area ( some would say dimension) I dont expect see much over the pole this time of year...

Laurence of up here.

> On Apr 3, 2015, at 2:44 PM, John Andrews <w1tag at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> Steve, Dex,
> 
> The carrier I'm seeing/hearing right now is -0.01 Hz from a 1 kHz marker set by my GPS-disciplined setup.
> 
> Did some loop rotating, given that the signal was audible. The null was nice and sharp, and indicated a 75d/255d bearing. Of the known sources, the old (off-air) Donebach site in Germany is at 52d, and the Ingoy, Norway site is at 24d. Algeria is at 77d, and that would make the most sense.
> 
> Dunno!
> 
> JA
> 
>> On 4/3/2015 6:26 PM, Steve Dove wrote:
>> Hi John, Dex,
>> 
>> Hello John!  NAB?
>> 
>> Eyeballing against Droitwich (no Rubidium, no GPS, no singing, no
>> dancing, no falling over) I make Algeria 240mHz low, and the Mystery
>> Meat thing 400mHz low of 153kHz. Ish.
>> 
>> Just to see if we're talking about the same things...  doesn't look like
>> it.
>> 
>>         Cheers,
>> 
>>                  Steve
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/3/2015 8:30 PM, John Andrews wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that the daytime signal is dead on frequency.
>>> Will look at the Algerian version tonight. The carrier dropped
>>> out for a while around 1910Z. It's 35 dB out of the noise
>>> right now, and audible in a 250 Hz BW.
>>> 
>>> JA
>>> 
>>>> On 4/3/2015 4:21 PM, Dexter McIntyre W4DEX wrote:
>>>> Steve Dove wrote:
>>>>> Hi Dex,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Long time no!  Just spelunked through a bunch of snapshots
>>>>> from last
>>>>> night/today.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I had two signals at 153, one significantly bigger than the
>>>>> other, and
>>>>> about 160mHz lower.  Three things:
>>>>> 1) None of the usual EU Longwave suspects were as strong as
>>>>> this,
>>>>> being comparable to the lesser signal,
>>>>> 2) The weaker signal winked out when it was supposed to at
>>>>> dawn, and
>>>>> 3) The biggie, although much weaker and wafting in and out,
>>>>> is still
>>>>> there even now (mid-afternoon).
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know what it is, other than not Algerian.
>>>> Steve,
>>>> 
>>>> So the mystery continues.  I haven't calibrated to make an
>>>> exact
>>>> frequency measurement but I also see a slight difference
>>>> between the two
>>>> signals.  Algeria is the strongest signal here.  If I
>>>> understand what
>>>> you said you see the opposite?  I've adjusted the SpecLab
>>>> plot to show a
>>>> full day:
>>>> 
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15095569/w4dex/grabber.jpg
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your input.
>>>> 
>>>> Dex
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