[SADXA] Frequency Measurement Test

Darrel Emerson demerson2718 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 11:20:57 EDT 2020


Congratulations, Wes!
    I'm impressed that you were able to overcome some of the ionospheric 
Doppler shift.  For how long did you average measurements to get your 
final results?  Any other tricks to reduce the impact of the ionosphere?

        Cheers,
                 Darrel, aa7fv.


On 8/15/2020 8:03 AM, Wes wrote:
> There are two "official" ARRL FMTs per year, but we frequency nuts 
> clamor for more.  Hence Connie, K5CM, the reference station, has been 
> doing unoffical ones more frequently.
>
> The last one was Thursday (MST) afternoon and evening.  I thought the 
> bands were awful and even disconnected antennas between the two 
> 80-meter runs because of lightning concerns.  Nevertheless, the 
> results were posted this morning 
> (http://k5cm.com/aug%2013%202020%20fmt.htm) and I did quite well, 
> coming in fifth in the parts-per-million metric.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
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