[600MRG] Last night...and today

Wed Jun 25 13:12:23 CDT 2014

Congrats on staying smoke free Larry!

I didnt have such a great night here on WSPR as my timing slipped - Im running the Ultimate 2  as the drive source and the GPS cable snakes some 20ft across the room and the flate plate antennae is inside the window, so not good. Guess a glitch hit it sometime (proably the GPS data cable acting as a good antennae) but the TX hardware ran cold and tuning was flat even though its started dry and ended up with a deluge. I maintained 200W output thru the night

I did get decodes from VE7BDQ and /20, thanks chaps, but no decodes here last night so think not too good up this end of the playing field

Ive built but not powered up an Ultimate 3 with an improved GPS rx which Ill add to my external GPS antennae field when I get to it. Its also got a closer tolerance on the WSPR tones I think in the later rev

Today - 

Im running the CW beacon message thru the day here and sitting in my office  in the city with the PL600 on the window ledge @ 35 miles and the signal is 30dB over noise in 2.5kHz and merrily repeating every 2 mins. on 475.060 - Any reports from my fellow Alaskans' appreciated

Laurence KL7L

> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:05:16 -0700
> From: larry at w7iuv.com
> To: 600MRG at w7ekb.com
> Subject: [600MRG] Last night
> 
> Last night was the first overnight WSPR run for WH2XGP. Nothing broke, 
> no smoke, boring....
> 
> I have no real idea how conditions were as my crippled RX only allowed 
> me to log VE7BDQ and WD2XSH/20,.
> 
> I had 9 unique spots, Rudy had 11. Given the 6 dB difference in ERP, 
> I'll declare victory for the antenna design and construction.
> 
> Lots of work yet to do. Mostly clean up but need to get a key on the 
> IC-706 and load some more software on the laptop so that I can start 
> making some QSO's.
> 
> The WSPR signal should be on most of the time except for QSO attempts, 
> modifications/repairs/maintenance/upgrades and of course power failures.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Larry - W7IUV/WH2XGP
> DN07dg - central WA
> http://w7iuv.com
> 
> 
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