[Lowfer] First Light

[Michael Sapp]

JD: You certainly had a much better  SIW capture than me today around same 
late afternoon/early evening time frame. Copy was difficult here on SIW.... 
congrats on the upgrade....

I spent several hours on Saturday removing rusty fasteners from the base of 
my HF ground plane and replacing with stainless
hardware. It will be interesting to see if I have banished any more noise 
gremlins from the near proximity of my MF/LF EWE antennas (which are near 
the ends of the GP radials).  So far it's rather quiet RF wise tonite, but 
that could be in part due to light snow/rain today....

73 Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JD" <listread at lwca.org>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 11:09 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] First Light


> The term pertains to newly commisioned telescopes, and can probably be
> borrowed for lower frequency photons as well.  Finally got a chance to
> install filters and the ovenized crystal in my new IC-R75 today and hooked
> it to an antenna for the first time.
>
> Technically, "first RF" was WWV at 10 MHz, but the attachment is the first
> _intentional_ RF.  Didn't have a non-metallic tuning tool to trim the
> oscillator, so that will have to wait.  It was only ~2.5 ppm off anyway, 
> but
> it took some hunting to find my targets...I forgot this thing does LSB CW!
>
> MP looked much the same as it did on the Kenwood during the noon hour,
> except not subject to minor frequency drifts as the wind speed increased 
> or
> decreased through the building, while the inverted S of SIW was coming in
> distinctly clearer near sunset than it did in mid-afternoon.
>
> Earlier, on the Kenwood where everything was right-side-up frequency wise, 
> I
> heard XXM testing in WSPR2 mode considerably down the slope of the CW 
> filter
> while I was capturing MP on 2200m. But nonetheless, when I lied to WSPR
> about dial frequency and BFO to fit XXM in, it was able to give -1 to +1 
> dB
> SNRr at 256 km distance with 0.2W.  He was there later when I got the Icom
> going, but I had to use USB mode then.  Also used the Icom for my first
> spots of XIQ and XXP on 630m about an hour after sunset.  Switched back to
> the Kenwood then, readjusted the audio level to the computer a smidgen, 
> and
> packed the Icom to return it to town.
>
> Heading back out now to see who else I've snagged.
>
> John
>


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