[Lowfer] TAG overnite with SIW

[Michael Sapp]

OK John:  I should have had the gain set a bit lower, hence the blooming on 
the TAG traces. I was trying to walk that fine line between a clean 
background and

best weak signal capture potential (possibly detect WM, etc.).   I still 
have a few things to learn about that process.... Thanks for the 
beaconing....

73, Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Andrews" <w1tag at charter.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] TAG overnite with SIW


> Mike,
>
> Thanks. Think I'm going to reprogram it for QRSS60 for next winter. It'll 
> be off from May - October, starting this year.
>
> John, W1TAG
>
> On 3/22/2015 1:17 PM, Michael Sapp wrote:
>> John, Garry & All:  SIW was copyable essentially all night here in EN90xn 
>> last evening/morning.  TAG showed up around 0500 through about 0845 as a 
>> solid signal, otherwise in & out of
>>
>> noise here during the overnight time period...
>>
>> Here's the best of for TAG....
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/od825b702yuocjx/capt00038.jpg?dl=0
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0nhlg8k3tkvab8a/capt00039.jpg?dl=0
>>
>>
>> I also was looking for WM but no trace ever seemed to come out of the 
>> noise here.
>>
>> Overnight I had the NE/SW EWE antenna in an unterminated omni mode and 
>> the NW EWE antenna combined with it via a magic-T type combiner.
>>
>> Not sure of the resulting pattern but I would think listening on the NW 
>> antenna should give be a better signal level from SIW. It turns out I get 
>> a better
>>
>> signal level from SIW with the two antennas combined.  My assumption is 
>> somehow the combiner is cancelling some local noise better what a single 
>> antenna can provide....
>>
>> but I'm still scratching my head on this one.  The two antennas are more 
>> or less at right angles to each other and centered  in the same area that 
>> is perhaps 50 x 50 feet or so
>>
>> square (hence the 70ft EWE horizontal length as hypotenuse.)  Perhaps I 
>> have something intermittent in the system, further observations and 
>> checks appear to be necessary....
>>
>> 73, Mike wa3tts
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