[Lowfer] WOLF tonight

Tue Mar 1 06:11:36 EST 2016

John

Try http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime for your ligtning maps ... replaced Vaisala with it here 
about a year ago now. Check out all the features ... like the 'station on/off' button upper right, 
sound, etc. Has ability to zoom to 'street' level. I like it because it shows currently active areas 
virtually real time (a few seconds) with the red circles. Think you'll like it!

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2

----- 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: Tuesday, March 01, 2016 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WOLF tonight

> Tonight's conditions were as different from Sunday night's as night
> and...er, well, another night that's completely not the same.  Little QRM
> and almost no QRN Sunday night with Preamp 1 on, versus S9+20 to +40 tonight
> with the preamps off!  The attached excerpt from Vaisala shows why, although
> I couldn't see lightning in the sky from the field.  For the better part of
> two hours, nothing showed up on WOLF.
>
> Finally, around 0230 I decided I had nothing to lose by playing around a
> little in the WOLF Config tab.  It appeared to be gradually converging on
> plausible carrier frequencies but never quite made it because of its
> automatic restarts, so I wanted to try having it stack more frames, but it
> turns out 32 is apparently the limit. Also, it had been attempting to lock
> onto carrier frequencies as far from center as +0.893 to -0.957 at times, so
> I hoped that reducing the frequency tolerance setting might help confine its
> search to a narrower, more likely band.
>
> After making my changes, I used the front panel button to 'Restart WOLF.'  I
> suspect it did not immediately take my frequency tolerance change at that
> restart, however, although I see that it reverted the time stamp  in the
> decoder output back to the last time the software restarted the decoding
> cycle itself.  Eventually it locked onto a carrier only 49 mHz high, which
> was in the right range given the state of the battery charge at that point,
> so I got my hopes up a little.  Sure enough, the Big WOLF eventually showed
> up three times over the next 22 minutes, in and out of the gibberish.
>
> At the software's next automatic restart at 0327:40, two things happened:
> the decoder time stamp caught up with real time again, and the attempted
> carrier locks all seemed to be in the narrower tolerance that I had
> specified earlier. The latter could have been coincidence, so I'll need to
> observe more and see if I can confirm thaat assertion.
>
> John D
>
>
> 2016-03-01 02:22:58 >WOLF10  -r 11024.559 -f 800 -t 1.0 -w 0.0000 -ut
> 02:23:22 f:-0.410 a: 1.3 dp: 54.3 ci: 8 cj:188 .YBANPYA*/HIG.F ?
> . .  .
> 02:34:41 >WOLF RESTARTED
> 02:23:22 f: 0.728 a:-0.5 dp: 70.0 ci:11 cj:285 5TJFT*CO4H3.E7H ?
> 02:23:46 f: 0.585 a: 0.2 dp: 67.5 ci: 9 cj: 80 AJJVFH9YUI*19C9 ?
> . . .
> 02:50:10 f:-0.957 pm:59.47 jm:858 q: -5.0 -8.9 07085N6K41KG*8P ?
> 02:51:46 f:-0.957 pm:61.93 jm:858 q: -4.8 -8.0 75KCI*13J70LG K ?
> 02:53:22 f: 0.049 pm:64.53 jm:476 q: -2.8 -8.2 7WDI4GNB627JDRR ?
> 02:54:58 f: 0.049 pm:70.08 jm:476 q: -2.5 -9.3 1ME9*4SJ2BN46E5 ?
> 02:56:34 f: 0.049 pm:74.05 jm:476 q: -2.2 -8.4 4PGC M2UHL8NZJ6 ?
> 02:58:10 f: 0.049 pm:87.69 jm:476 q: -1.7 -7.2 WC1*G2N2CQKX4.R ?
> 02:59:46 f: 0.049 pm:94.80 jm:476 q: -1.8 -8.3 /*E997???6K5/I3 ?
> 03:01:22 f: 0.049 pm:104.3 jm:476 q: -1.6 -8.3 4PGC N8OZPZWACB ?
> 03:02:58 f: 0.049 pm:121.7 jm:476 q: -1.2 -8.1 4PGC N8OZPZWACB ?
> 03:04:34 f: 0.049 pm:127.3 jm:476 q: -1.2 -5.9 WD2XES BIG WOLF -
> 03:06:10 f: 0.049 pm:127.6 jm:476 q: -1.0 -6.0 WD2XES BIG WOLF -
> 03:07:46 f: 0.049 pm:128.9 jm:476 q: -0.8 -8.7 .000I8PENY30/N6 ?
> 03:09:22 f: 0.049 pm:131.0 jm:476 q: -0.7 -8.6 X YGAOAX4YZ5KR* ?
> 03:10:58 f: 0.049 pm:140.5 jm:476 q: -0.6 -7.4 KHQICCTX.???2CX ?
> 03:12:34 f: 0.049 pm:147.0 jm:476 q: -0.6 -7.5 KHQICCTX.???2CX ?
> 03:14:10 f: 0.049 pm:155.5 jm:476 q: -0.3 -7.2 J8/Z71 CX*KH2YJ ?
> 03:15:46 f: 0.049 pm:159.1 jm:476 q: -0.2 -5.8 WD2XES BIG WOLF -
> 2016-03-01 03:27:40 >WOLF10  -r 11024.559 -f 800 -t 0.2 -w 0.0000 -ut
> . . . etc.; no further decodes before QRT . . .
>

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