Re: [IRCA] phasing story

[Theo <theod@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kia ora:
Whitby is "NW" of Tranna?
Gee, you must still be thinking you're clinging to the Junior Land Down Under.
Remind me never to ask you for directions. I'd end up on a train to Oakville... or better still Hamilton. <g>
Theo

-------- Original message --------
From: TONY WARD <tonyward@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Date: 2018-10-29  19:46  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] phasing story 

May I please join the party! With a bow to Sylvain, who started me on the hunt â I spent weeks phasing WGN to oblivion trying for KNR Greenland on 720 after he logged it several years ago â and of course Tim and Kaz with their recent superb achievements, I lit up the under-utilised DXE NCC-1 phaser. It has been side-lined here because recording on the Perseus encourages the broadband approach. Hooked my 400 ft Greenland nDB BOG (c. 40 degrees; love BOGâs, they cannot fall down when cometh the ice!) to antenna post A, and the trusty PA0RDT mini whip to B, and experimented with reducing WGN to dust on 720. With some success. At 0218Z, as others have noted, KNR stuck a few distinctive pop tunes into the man talking/woman talking routine that was rumbling along and it was obvious that success was at last at hand.

 Now WGN is 400 miles from here, and pretty well 180 degrees from Greenland, but still, it felt pretty goodâ.right up there with logging the 75m signal a few scant weeks before they pulled the plug, back in the day. There is about 2500 ft of creatively draped wire these days in my suburban ravine; in Whitby, 25 miles NW of Toronto downtown, and it feels really good I can tell you. I have bionic knees and donât get around too well right now. I can see future antenna maintenance could be quite a problem. But I am seeing the Aussie and Pacific carriers at dawn (currently 1250Z or so here), and perhaps a few from Asia over the pole will make it this winter with the Solar low. Iceland booms in here on LW (both channels), as do many of the Europeans lately, when conditions are good. What was that wonderful station on 1134 that I heard earlier than 2pm local time a few years ago? And if all that fails, there are those amazing remote listening SDRs from which you can hear the World, as weak, or as strong, as you wish.

 â Tony Ward (ZL1AZV, VE3NO etc)


> On Oct 29, 2018, at 13:10, Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yep, the S meter is a must for getting the best nulls. You can do it
> audibly, but the S meter sure helps. 73 KAZ
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:06 PM Jim B <jim01028@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> I put larger knobs on my quantum phaser for finer adjustment, but now
>> that
>>> I use SDR Console for MW dxing, I also use the gain db scale like a
>> digital
>>> readout to help find the best nulls.ÂÂ Jim
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Nrc-am <
>>> Nrc-am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2018 10:27 pm
>>> Subject: [nrc-am] A phasing story. Greenland 720 logged in IL.
>>> 
>>> A phasing story from last night. I live 12 miles NNW from WGN's xmtr. I
>>> put down a 288 ft BOG at about 35 deg // a 177 ft one. Phase null of WGN
>>> peaked at about 50 dB and it was down close to S6 on Perseus.? Sure
>> enough
>>> there's audio seeming // KNR webstream which was mostly talk. Then from
>>> 0104-8 a couple of bouncy tunes sung by females clinched it leaving me no
>>> doubt. This using the Quantum Phaser which I think I'd like 2:1 or even
>> 3:1
>>> Vernier knobs for.
>>> When I got Greenland at my WI DX paradise a decade ago, WGN and KNR were
>>> about S7-8 using longer terminated BOGs. At 12 miles distance I have no
>>> skywave to worry about.
>>> I couldn't get Greenland on 650 where even though WSCR and WSM are close
>>> together on the dial and in similar directions, WSCR IBOC crept up during
>>> best null on WSM and visa-versa.
>>> IBOC sucks but phasing ROCKS. Short BOGs aren't impressive 'til you phase
>>> them to create good back nulls. ? 73 KAZ?--

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