[Milsurplus] (Milsurplus) Night of Nights VI -

[Richard M. MC Clung]

Things started out great last night I had loaded all the listed
frequencies into the BR RSS-5 Spectrum Monitor Receiver and could see
what frequencies were probagating into the South end of San Jose and
which ones I should select for recording.

I had my Cubic R-3038-02 two channel MF/HF DF Receiver all set up to
intercept the stations participating with my Beckman/Berkley Model
905 WWV Receiver to provide a time hack. 

For an antenna I used my TCI 620F-2A Orthogonal Loops. The Clockwise
(CW) and Counterclockwise (CCW) outputs were connected to a 2-way
power splitter. One CW and one CCW output was fed to the dual Cubic
Receiver. The other CW and CCW outputs were connected to a 90 degree
hy-brid and the CW output was fed to a multicoupler. The RSS-5 and
WWV receivers were connected to the multicoupler which made up some
of the loss in the hy-brid so they had about the same signal input
level as the Cubic did.
  
Next I set up my Novus Model 1200 Audio Switching Matrix to place the
audio from the WWV Receiver on Channel 1 of my Phi Teck ComLog-2 
4-channel cassette deck and the audio from the Cubic Receiver was
routed to Channel 2. 

The plan was to record 10 minutes of each Frequency from each Station
 onto a cassette cartridge to forward as intercept reports and QSL
requests.

Well....... Mr. Murphy showed up last night and proved his old law to
be still on the books. The AGC control circuit in the ComLog-2 tape
deck decided to crash after the first cut. That ment that the control
voltage to the motors wasn't being applied and the tape wouldn't
move. Well, after 2 hours of cussing and fussing I gave up and went
back to reading a book that I needed to finish reading.

So here's a list of what I was able to hear. Next year I should have
my digital recorder and I'll be able to record everthing onto a CD.

The Cubic Receiver has a noise floor of -125 dBm and my local noise
was -110 dBm.

KPH
  4247.00KHz - 40 dBm 
  6477.50KHz - 40 dBm
  8642.00KHz - 60 dBm
 12808.50KHz - 90 dBm
 17016.80KHz -100 dBm
 22477.50KHz -110 dBm

KSM
  6474.00KHz - 80 dBm
 12993.00KHz -100 dBm

WLO
  8514.00KHz - 90 dBm
 12660.00KHz NO JOY

KLB
  6411.00khZ - 80 dBm

NMC
  NO JOY ANY FREQUENCY

NOJ
  8650.00KHz - 90 dBM
  12 & 16 MHZ NO JOY 

RICH  WA6KNW  WPE6AKQ