Re: [IRCA] 1566 TA again

[Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

last night 1566 was very wispy carrier showing at 0350 ut June 26 using the
700' AF 60 deg wire.  June 25th was better - fade in 0336 to f/out 0523,
both well defined (only had the 30 deg 1100 wire that night).  But still
very weak and below audibility for even hearing a het.  I will check for
576 on a future evening (but not tonight).

73 Don
VE6JY

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Very nice Guy.     By 0530UT, 1566 was pretty much gone here, so maybe you
>  are getting a better signal at your location.   Now try 576, although that
> faded pretty rapidly after I'd reported it.   The irony is that I don't
> recall these signals at a time of year when "conventional" TA reception is
> more likely.
>
> I didn't realize you could get such accuracy in frequency using the
> Perseus.   I need to do a fair bit of calculation here, fortunately using a
> spreadsheet, to get to within maybe two tenths of a Hertz, using an R8,
> tuning off to one side to give a 400Hz tone, then looking at the resultant
> het with Spectran.
>
> The 1566 carrier appeared to average 1565.9998 here (within that two
> tenths of a Hertz), but was badly smeared over a couple of Hertz, I'm
> guessing due to Doppler shifts in the ionosphere?
>
> Ah yes, extreme minimalist DXing...
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
> At 05:41 26-06-12, Guy Atkins wrote:
>
>> I need to get in the habit of checking 1566 in the evenings! I didn't
>> remember until 0530, some minutes after sunrise in Benin.
>>
>> The very weak trace I was seeing on Perseus after calibration measured
>> 1566.0003 kHz. The MWoffsets list I have gives 1565.9976 - 1566.000 as the
>> reported range (freq data from Aug. 2011). I've no idea if it's them, but
>> all other possible targets for 1566 are still in daylight.
>>
>> I should probably join the Yahoo group or forum that specializes in
>> MWoffsets if I want to go chasing hets in lieu of DX with actual audio :^)
>>
>> Guy Atkins
>> Puyallup, WA
>>
>> ---
>>
>
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