[MRCA] SAQ received in Chickenland

[Al Klase]

Good going, Breck.

Once again, Location, Location, Location





Merry Christmas,
Al

Al Klase -- N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 12/24/2014 2:28 PM, B. Smith wrote:
> We sat up again at Port Mahon Delaware  and set up at  approx 06:30Z 
> (01:30 local). Mission was to test out a small 3 foot loop which was 
> designed to fit inside and not "on top" of  my 86 Suburban War Wagon. 
> We had a major winter storm rapidly approaching from the South West on 
> our tails and I was in a hurry to get setup before the storm and get 
> inside the war wagon  to play radio and to stay dry.
>
> The 3 foot loop had 36 turns  and had a measure inductance of approx  
> 28 mH. I used a varicap control box  mounted at the loop base with a 
> remote  pot and a 9 volt battery  via a 15 foot control line to bias 5 
> NTE 129 varicaps in the box  (BTW ordinary diodes can be used) to 
> supplement a fixed capacitance of 3000 pf and to be able to tune the 
> antenna plus or minus 1.5  Kcs . Since it was going to be raining and 
> windy  I took a compass bearing and aligned  the antenna  axis on a 
> magnetic bearing of 048 degrees plus or minus 5 . (True bearing 036 
> corrected for 12 degrees of "West" variation).
>
> At first I did not hear SAQ  doing the usual tune up at the half hour 
> before the normal broadcast but finally picked up a steady carrier 
> approx 17 minutes before the scheduled broadcast time of 08:00Z.  It 
> was interesting to listen to the carrier slowly increase and get 
> louder and louder as they peaked the system. Anyway we picked up the 
> tune up  session and the broadcast. Signal report using the standard 
> RST system was R 2 to 3      S 2 to 3 and T of 9. If you are not 
> familiar with the RST system see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RST_code
>
> I had the APRS on and it should still be on Google APRS or just enter 
> K4CHE without any dash or slant bar etc.  Not sure how long the data 
> stays stored on Google.
> http://aprs.fi/#!mt=roadmap&z=11&call=a%2FK4CHE&timerange=3600&tail=3600
>
>                                   Mission Accomplished    . .   . the 
> smaller loop worked fine, signals very weak but easily picked out of 
> the noise.  Set up was easy, take down was wet.
>
> A spooky place at oh dark thirty but the rain was warm reminding me of 
> another far off place.
>          A Christmas Eve adventure in Delaware.
> I will try to post some photos and loop construction info.
> Now off to finish wrapping presents.
>
> Merry Christmas
> Z
>
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