[Lowfer] Sj and wm last night
John Hamer
wilbur0611 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 16:34:06 EST 2023
Garry and Mike,
I'm sure it's my SDR play then, I have not calibrated it in a while.
John Hamer
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 4:03 PM Garry <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Mike and John,
>
> I noticed John's frequency scale was off about 1 Hz too. WM is right
> where it's always been and perhaps John would have seen something from
> SIW too if ARGO was 1 Hz lower. Then again perhaps not because I looked
> for KE and JH last night a bit and saw nothing even though earlier SJ
> and even TAG were seen. Haven't seen anything from WH2SSP for some days
> now so wonder if it's currently on the air.
>
> Zack, you're much closer to Mike's WM beacon at the watering hole than I
> am so I'd expect that to come through using ARGO at QRSS30 rate. It's
> normally strong via ground wave here from 367 km.
>
> I've managed to decode 100 countries on FT8 from 160 through 10 mtrs
> with a Clifton Labs eprobe at 10' in the back yard. The homebrew eprobes
> I used previously probably wouldn't have done nearly as well but I think
> 160 mtrs would have worked fine, and perhaps 80 mtrs too. I started out
> years ago with a 3' shielded loop, then upgraded to a 10' shielded loop
> a la VE7SL. While the latter outperformed my homebrew eprobe it degraded
> over time and when I took it down it was definitely lower in sensitivity
> than the Clifton Labs eprobe.
>
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
>
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