[Lowfer] SAQ in Indiana

[Zack Widup]

Earlier this year, SAQ transmitted a message and I tuned in on a KiwiSDR
station in Sweden. I noticed that same frequency drift then. It's amazing
that they use an AC generator to produce the signal.

Zack W9SZ

On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 11:36 AM Gedas <w8bya at mchsi.com> wrote:

> I just wish we did not have this super weird warm front moving in from
> the southwest and south that brought in all kinds of QRN. The lightning
> crashes were elevating my NF by at least 10 dB.
>
> As an aside, and this is not something I would normally do, I took a
> screen capture of my 2nd video and snipped out a portion and brought it
> into Photoshop where I applied some Unsharp masking. That works by
> increasing the contrast between dark and light areas. It did help as
> seen in the image at the URL below. What is neat is the wavering freq
> matches to what I was seeing on their YouTube video as they were fine
> tuning the transmitter.  73
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uAOOpmfVzMPwr3msCaySRT9PpZEUcq-j/view?usp=sharing
>
> Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
> Light travels faster than sound.....
> This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
>
> On 12/24/2023 12:15 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
> > That's amazing that you could detect it. I didn't think anyone very far
> > west of the east coast has ever heard it, including the midwest.
> >
> > My Airspy Discovery HF+ covers that frequency. But some people use
> > longwires and a soundcard spectrum display program to detect SAQ.
> >
> > 73, Zack W9SZ
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:30 AM Gedas<w8bya at mchsi.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> SAQ was detected only in my waterfall (marginally) due to the high
> >> thunderstorm QRN in the Midwest and Gulf.
> >>
> >> Here are several video clips showing the transmitters frequency being
> >> fine tuned prior to the formal message.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tl0cJu2RIw9Tl7cVLshRE9akoU6zZ7Yy/view?usp=sharing
> >>
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jE0m1euNVXDm5yA33tWeTqDmiBplfRRA/view?usp=sharing
> >>
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QgqsF5VkeYPM0nzoz4Ka6UT0KhRKlCLS/view?usp=sharing
> >>
> >>
> >> Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
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