[Lf] Re: Nags Head SITREP Number 2

[Peter Dodd]

Hello Nags Head gang

> We copied many signals under good conditions during the night of January
> 16 over here.  We had low noise and ran narrowband Spectran
> "spectrograms" during most of the period you were transmitting.  Because
> your stations were clustered, we could monitor for all stations on a
> single setup with a single spectrogram display.  'We saw some very weak
> signals in the area where your signals would appear but they were not on
> frequency nor reflected a slow 4 second dot.  We did not feel we had any
> detections of your signals. 

OK, we will try again tonight same time same frequencies

> As regards receiving antennas, our experience here (as you may recall
> from our reports of tests run two months ago at the NSS US Navy
> installation) has been that a 300 ft high LF transmitting dipole gave no
> better results that our e-field probes.

Yes I remember but these seem to be two extremes

> Anyway , we will attempt to run a long wire antenna this afternoon here

It will at least give some comparison.

> We copy both our own beacons quite clearly here and we will post next
> week on the AMRAD web page a spectran picture of both Virginia beacons
> being received here in Nags Head North Carolina. 

We feel that this is most encouraging

> We will also post a spectran spectrogram picture taken of your part of
> the LF band captured at 0600Zulu Sunday 16 January.

Thank you.




-- 
Regards, Peter, G3LDO

<g3ldo at zetnet.co.uk>