[Lowfer] Navtex 2/12 Overnight

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Tom, Garry

No reception of Niton ENG here last night. Navtex from EU has not been nearly as prevalent as in 
past seasons. SeaTTY is in use here as well ... all stations copied are verified by appropriate text 
in the message. Tom, this list of stations received at W1VD might be of some use as you get 'cranked 
up' for Navtex reception ... http://www.w1vd.com/Navtex.pdf .

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "n8tl" <n8tl at woh.rr.com>
To: <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>; "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European,& UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Navtex 2/12 Overnight


> Garry:
>
> Okay on all....I am using the W1VD e-probe set up here in Findlay, Ohio.  Since there is no 
> directionality
> associated with the probe, I suspect that Savannah was competing with EB58 and overpowering it.
> I need to compare the Navtex schedule schedule for Savannah and Niton to see if that meshes.
>
> It is nice to know that the sensitivity of the probe is there....and...I am not using the 20db amp 
> at the
> end of the coax.  The antenna is isolated from the IC-R75 receiver by a 1:1 isolation transformer.
>
> Tonight, I am setting up to look for SAQ at 1450 UTC...so, that is going to be interesting at 17.2 
> Khz.
> Probably won't see much, but, we will give it a try.
>
> Thanks for the interpretation.....73,
>
> Tom N8TL
>
> On 02/12/2015 12:45 PM, Garry Hess wrote:
>> Tom, thanks for the text file of your Navtex decodes for "E".
>>
>> Your first line is "2015-02-12 00:40:27 78> ZCZC EB58". My SeaTTY output at that time is a very 
>> long weather report beginning with
>>
>> ZCZC EB58
>> FZNT25 KWNM 112132
>> OFFN03
>>
>> timestamped 00:40:25. At my end this is followed by "clean" short messages EA47, then EA12, all 
>> clearly from the Savannah, GA station.
>>
>> The only copy I read in your file for EB58 is related to the US east coast so I'm sure it's also 
>> from the Savannah, GA source. However, unlike me, you have a lot of garbled text and that could 
>> be due to interference from Niton, England. I forget what antenna you're using but if it has some 
>> directivity that depresses Savannah that would make Niton more likely. Also, I know that being 
>> farther east makes European reception more likely.
>>
>> Seems strange that given the decoded text for EB58 YaND would identify it with Niton. But YanD 
>> comes from Europe and probably has a bias toward identifying European stations. I have YaND 5.6 
>> installed on my computers and it's no doubt far out of date. But I recall the station list it 
>> came with didn't even include US stations; they had to be added later.
>>
>
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