[R-390] Don Reaves - SAQ 2004-07-04

[N4BUQ at aol.com]

Hmmm.  Looking at the spectrograph, I see "Grimeton", but it looks like the next word is "was".  The text quoted in the website has "has been".  Just curious.  Too much time on my hands?

Barry - N4BUQ

>A few years back, Al Klase posted a link to a SAQ recording, received on a
>WJ LF receiver and processed with a PC sound card and software.  Here is
>that link with the details of the 'capture' and the recording.
>
>http://www.eht.com/oldradio/awa/events/grimeton/grimeton.htm
>
>So at least the signal is stable enough to permit that.  Judging from
>comments received it is likely that only those on the east coast might hear
>it this summer, and then only if they are lucky and in a noise free
>listening post.  In case other readers don't know what we are talking about,
>here is a reference.
>
>http://www.alexander.n.se/
>Good pictures of the motor/generator and antenna farm.  Most of the web
>pages are non-English.
>
>And, Jerry Proc's history:
>http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/radiostor/aalt.html
>
>
>So, put a vlf converter on your R-390 and listen up if you are on the East
>coast.  Be one of the few in the US to hear it.
>
>Barry Hauser, is Radio Central on Long Island marked or observed in any way?
>It was a former alternator site, with huge antennas.
>
>Don Reaves
>
>
>> 
>> Actually, from what I have read on the subject, Alexanderson 
>> alternators incorporated a very unique, mostly mechanical, frequency 
>> control which kept them within a very few percent of their assigned 
>> frequency. I don't think drift would be objectionable even to 
>> Spectogram.
>> 
> 
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