Friday 15 August 2014

Lashed up MF antenna but some good DX

Overnight, I left my FRG-100 tuned to 472kHz (474.2kHz to be exact) in USB mode, and the PC on running WSPR. The antenna was a serious bodge job



After the failure some time back of the random wire that fed both the FRG-100 and Sams VOLMET 5MHz receiver, all that was left feeding the Hi-Z port of the receiver was about two feet of speaker wire. With no time to fiddle (It was gone 22:00 by this time!) the best I could do was switch the ATU to bypass, can croc-clip the bit of wire to the center pin of the patch lead I use to the antenna switch for connecting up such things as Wispy or my SWL PSK-20.

Some fiddling was needed to get the audio into the PC as well, but I was remarkably surprised to see stations coming in. I left the whole lot running overnight. 13 different stations copied! Including, finally at about 03:00, including Roger G3XBM


Timestamp
Call
MHz
SNR
Drift
Grid
Pwr
Reporter
RGrid
km
az
 2014-08-1506:48 
 PA3ABK/2 
 0.475739 
 -8 
 0 
 JO21it 
 0.5 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 448 
 301 
 2014-08-1502:54 
 GM4SLV 
 0.475725 
 -13 
 0 
 IP90gg 
 0.2 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 723 
 178 
 2014-08-1503:20 
 G8HUH 
 0.475610 
 -1 
 0 
 IO81mg 
 1 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 304 
 23 
 2014-08-1422:44 
 G6AVK 
 0.475762 
 -21 
 0 
 JO01ho 
 0.01 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 268 
 335 
 2014-08-1504:56 
 G3XBM 
 0.475739 
 -29 
 0 
 JO02dg 
 0.005 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 192 
 331 
 2014-08-1505:56 
 G3WCB 
 0.475654 
 -22 
 0 
 IO91rm 
 0.2 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 253 
 351 
 2014-08-1501:56 
 F6HCC 
 0.475677 
 -29 
 0 
 IN87hs 
 0.1 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 686 
 12 
 2014-08-1500:40 
 DK7FC 
 0.475684 
 -21 
 0 
 JN49ik 
 1 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 832 
 309 
 2014-08-1422:44 
 DK2DB 
 0.475641 
 -19 
 0 
 JN48fw 
 0.5 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 854 
 313 
 2014-08-1500:30 
 DJ0ABR 
 0.475759 
 -22 
 0 
 JN68nt 
 0.5 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 1131 
 305 
 2014-08-1501:18 
 DH5RAE 
 0.475749 
 -23 
 0 
 JN68qv 
 0.2 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 1141 
 304 
 2014-08-1422:58 
 DG3LV 
 0.475785 
 -25 
 0 
 JO53gv 
 20 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 765 
 274 
 2014-08-1501:44 
 DC0DX 
 0.475697 
 -19 
 0 
 JO31lk 
 2 
 G7MRV  IO93ks 
 604 
 299 

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