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7190 & 7225 Tunisa revisited for comparison
06/03/04 @ 21:50 UTC
Done with R-75 and 200ft "FRANKENSTEIN" 7190; In am mode there is moderate noise and fade out. There is also a serious heterodyne or some kind of IF causing a groan/whistle on the usb. Signal from a low of s-3 to a high of s-8 in am. LSB is nice and clear. Peak modulation brings it up to a max of s-6 in LSB. It is still a bit noisy but some nr helps enough to make it practical to listen to in lsb. 7225: Solid in am mode and a fair bit cleaner then the 7190 signal. In am a low of s-6 to a height of s-8. Good in both lsb and usb. In ssb at peak modulation it is also a max of s-6. I tried my PL-550 and my KA-1102 on both signals using the Tecsun external reel antenna and found that neither radio is doing a good job of dealing with it. Both are nothing but LOTS of noise on 7190. On 7225, you can hear it on both radios, but it is noisy as all get out. Usually, I find that my portables can hear most of what my R-75 can hear, but it this case, they cant. Clearly, 7190 has problems making it here clearly for one reason or another compared to 7225 that is doing well on the R-75. Despite that though, in ssb on the R-75, even though 7190 is more noisy, both come in at a max of s-6 when they are in ssb. -- Respectfully, Michael Location: New Jersey Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire Additional Radios: KA-1101,KA-1102,PL-550, KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube) Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com |
Currently both frequencies here are S9 to 10 over at 2230.
Michael wrote: 06/03/04 @ 21:50 UTC Done with R-75 and 200ft "FRANKENSTEIN" 7190; In am mode there is moderate noise and fade out. There is also a serious heterodyne or some kind of IF causing a groan/whistle on the usb. Signal from a low of s-3 to a high of s-8 in am. LSB is nice and clear. Peak modulation brings it up to a max of s-6 in LSB. It is still a bit noisy but some nr helps enough to make it practical to listen to in lsb. 7225: Solid in am mode and a fair bit cleaner then the 7190 signal. In am a low of s-6 to a height of s-8. Good in both lsb and usb. In ssb at peak modulation it is also a max of s-6. I tried my PL-550 and my KA-1102 on both signals using the Tecsun external reel antenna and found that neither radio is doing a good job of dealing with it. Both are nothing but LOTS of noise on 7190. On 7225, you can hear it on both radios, but it is noisy as all get out. Usually, I find that my portables can hear most of what my R-75 can hear, but it this case, they cant. Clearly, 7190 has problems making it here clearly for one reason or another compared to 7225 that is doing well on the R-75. Despite that though, in ssb on the R-75, even though 7190 is more noisy, both come in at a max of s-6 when they are in ssb. -- Respectfully, Michael Location: New Jersey Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire Additional Radios: KA-1101,KA-1102,PL-550, KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube) Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com |
dxAce wrote: Currently both frequencies here are S9 to 10 over at 2230. And I just tried them with a 10' wire inside the aluminium sided shack and get them both at about S6. Still a decent signal, listening in AM with the 6 kHz filter on the R8. Michael wrote: 06/03/04 @ 21:50 UTC Done with R-75 and 200ft "FRANKENSTEIN" 7190; In am mode there is moderate noise and fade out. There is also a serious heterodyne or some kind of IF causing a groan/whistle on the usb. Signal from a low of s-3 to a high of s-8 in am. LSB is nice and clear. Peak modulation brings it up to a max of s-6 in LSB. It is still a bit noisy but some nr helps enough to make it practical to listen to in lsb. 7225: Solid in am mode and a fair bit cleaner then the 7190 signal. In am a low of s-6 to a height of s-8. Good in both lsb and usb. In ssb at peak modulation it is also a max of s-6. I tried my PL-550 and my KA-1102 on both signals using the Tecsun external reel antenna and found that neither radio is doing a good job of dealing with it. Both are nothing but LOTS of noise on 7190. On 7225, you can hear it on both radios, but it is noisy as all get out. Usually, I find that my portables can hear most of what my R-75 can hear, but it this case, they cant. Clearly, 7190 has problems making it here clearly for one reason or another compared to 7225 that is doing well on the R-75. Despite that though, in ssb on the R-75, even though 7190 is more noisy, both come in at a max of s-6 when they are in ssb. -- Respectfully, Michael Location: New Jersey Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire Additional Radios: KA-1101,KA-1102,PL-550, KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube) Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com |
I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal
arriving from different directions/frequencies? Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. Michael |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Michael |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Real time is fine.... We can do a few now.... 9330 BCQ In at s-15+ Sounds like someone talking about doomsday asteroid. 9370 WTJC s-8 and getting splashed from 9375 9375 Greece coming in at s-8 but fades out at times.... getter a heterodyne from WTJC 9410 BBC peaks at s-10 .. good signal mimimal noise and fade... 9420 Greece again... S-9 but modulation is diminished 9435 Slovakia (I think) s-9, little noise, great modulation.... 9460 Turkey... gets as high as s-20 Awesome signal 9505 getting crushed by 9510 so I need to listen in ssb 9510.... Sounds like BBC in a slavic langiage.... heterodyne here from 9505... I think I also here somthing else going on here... 9520 not sure what this is... in a slavic langiage.. news program... peaks at s-7 and has some fade out... noise floor pops up at times... possible VOA |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Real time is fine.... We can do a few now.... 9330 BCQ In at s-15+ Sounds like someone talking about doomsday asteroid. S9 + 20 9370 WTJC s-8 and getting splashed from 9375 S9 + 10 9375 Greece coming in at s-8 but fades out at times.... getter a heterodyne from WTJC S9, no het. 9410 BBC peaks at s-10 .. good signal mimimal noise and fade... S9 + 10 9420 Greece again... S-9 but modulation is diminished S9 + 20 9435 Slovakia (I think) s-9, little noise, great modulation.... No one here on 9435, but 9440 is S9 + a bit. 9460 Turkey... gets as high as s-20 Awesome signal S9 + 20 9505 getting crushed by 9510 so I need to listen in ssb S9 + 20, fine in AM 9510.... Sounds like BBC in a slavic langiage.... heterodyne here from 9505... I think I also here somthing else going on here... S9 + 10, but a bit of splatter from 9505, would be easily rectified on the R8B, but I'm using the R8. 9520 not sure what this is... in a slavic langiage.. news program... peaks at s-7 and has some fade out... noise floor pops up at times... possible VOA S9 here. |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. That I think is part of the problem.. I believe I've noted two frequencies where you think you are hearing something, but they are removed by 5 kHz. Might be how you have your passband set. |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. Yes... 9965, not 9660 I typed it incorrectly. You did also... (9660) Still... This signal is weak....Currently music.... I don't hear any utility, though. Also.. I can cut out any of the hets I mentioned above with the noth filter. Michael |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. Yes... 9965, not 9660 I typed it incorrectly. You did also... (9660) You got me there! |
"dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. Yes... 9965, not 9660 I typed it incorrectly. You did also... (9660) You got me there! LOL Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. Yes... 9965, not 9660 I typed it incorrectly. You did also... (9660) You got me there! LOL Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. There are no difficult signals. There is only poor propagation. |
Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... I wonder if it may be useful to do some comparisons on some other signal arriving from different directions/frequencies? Sounds like a good idea... Any recommendations on what/when to check ??? I'll post a reception report. I'll leave it up to you. Tonight or tomorrow. Tomorrow night would be good. We can pick a time for me to start. Either 2 or 3 UTC. What ever is best for you. What I'll do is take the first 30 minutes of the hour and go through either the 31,41 or 49 meter bands. I'll post a reception log by half way through the hour. This way you'll have time to check out my report and compare how your receiving them before the one hour time slot is more then half way over and the show is off the air. Your pick on either 2 or 3 UTC. Your pick on either 31, 41 or 49 meter band. Let's do 2 UTC and 31 meter band. We can always check the others later on. Or we could select various targets, and do them in real time together. Either way, it might be interesting. Steve Holland, MI Drake R7, R8 and R8B http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm Here is one more.... This is one that I'm not pulling in too good 9960 VOR from, I think... Armenia ??? Peaks at only s-6. Serious noise floor popping up. Even the kiwa mod sync looses this one at times. No one on 9660... But indeed there is someone on 9665... with utility interference. Yes... 9965, not 9660 I typed it incorrectly. You did also... (9660) You got me there! LOL Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. 9965 is most likely Voice of Armenia. |
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"Michael" wrote: 06/03/04 @ 21:50 UTC Done with R-75 and 200ft "FRANKENSTEIN" 7190; In am mode there is moderate noise and fade out. There is also a serious heterodyne or some kind of IF causing a groan/whistle on the usb. Signal from a low of s-3 to a high of s-8 in am. LSB is nice and clear. Peak modulation brings it up to a max of s-6 in LSB. It is still a bit noisy but some nr helps enough to make it practical to listen to in lsb. 7225: Solid in am mode and a fair bit cleaner then the 7190 signal. In am a low of s-6 to a height of s-8. Good in both lsb and usb. In ssb at peak modulation it is also a max of s-6. I tried my PL-550 and my KA-1102 on both signals using the Tecsun external reel antenna and found that neither radio is doing a good job of dealing with it. Both are nothing but LOTS of noise on 7190. On 7225, you can hear it on both radios, but it is noisy as all get out. Usually, I find that my portables can hear most of what my R-75 can hear, but it this case, they cant. Clearly, 7190 has problems making it here clearly for one reason or another compared to 7225 that is doing well on the R-75. Despite that though, in ssb on the R-75, even though 7190 is more noisy, both come in at a max of s-6 when they are in ssb. Before you make that assumption about 7190 you should consider making a dipole cut for 7190. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Michael wrote:
Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what we're hearing. Have you ever done this? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
"Telamon" wrote in message ... In article , "Michael" wrote: 06/03/04 @ 21:50 UTC Done with R-75 and 200ft "FRANKENSTEIN" 7190; In am mode there is moderate noise and fade out. There is also a serious heterodyne or some kind of IF causing a groan/whistle on the usb. Signal from a low of s-3 to a high of s-8 in am. LSB is nice and clear. Peak modulation brings it up to a max of s-6 in LSB. It is still a bit noisy but some nr helps enough to make it practical to listen to in lsb. 7225: Solid in am mode and a fair bit cleaner then the 7190 signal. In am a low of s-6 to a height of s-8. Good in both lsb and usb. In ssb at peak modulation it is also a max of s-6. I tried my PL-550 and my KA-1102 on both signals using the Tecsun external reel antenna and found that neither radio is doing a good job of dealing with it. Both are nothing but LOTS of noise on 7190. On 7225, you can hear it on both radios, but it is noisy as all get out. Usually, I find that my portables can hear most of what my R-75 can hear, but it this case, they cant. Clearly, 7190 has problems making it here clearly for one reason or another compared to 7225 that is doing well on the R-75. Despite that though, in ssb on the R-75, even though 7190 is more noisy, both come in at a max of s-6 when they are in ssb. Before you make that assumption about 7190 you should consider making a dipole cut for 7190. I found that 7190 was also poor on my portables compared to 7225. Practically speaking, 7190 was not as effective to my location at that time. It wasn't the antennas, it wasn't the radio. Keep in mind that I have a preselector between my R-75 and both my antennas and my PL-500 has a built in antenna tuner. Michael |
"longwave" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what we're hearing. Have you ever done this? Chat programs arent my speed... You can post what you come up with right here and you'll get other people to check it out right away and respond with a reception report from their location. I usually just put that in my subject line the time and frequency and others check it out right away and report on it too. It would be kewl if we culd get a number of people to assemble for a particular night during a set two or three hour time slot and post their finds and stand ready to check out each others posts and respond to them with a reception report. Michael |
"-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 06:32:51p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "longwave" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what we're hearing. Have you ever done this? Chat programs arent my speed... You can post what you come up with right here and you'll get other people to check it out right away and respond with a reception report from their location. I usually just put that in my subject line the time and frequency and others check it out right away and report on it too. It would be kewl if we culd get a number of people to assemble for a particular night during a set two or three hour time slot and post their finds and stand ready to check out each others posts and respond to them with a reception report. Michael Someone in here has a chat-applet on his web-site and I wonder if it would be available and private enough? Alternatively, there are a variety of instant-messaging apps available. One possible downside I see to posting the results in RRS (as individual messages) is trying to read through them in order or having to navigate through the relevant posts without having to jump around. In any event, it wouldn't be that difficult to dump all the reports into a single DB or even some contest logging app, then post a single all-in-one report of the results from different locations - instead of having to sort through a long message thread and piece the reports back together in order. Formatted something like (but not limited to): Freq1 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (mode, SINPO, whatever) (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment Freq2 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment At the top or bottom you could list each listener's details. That wouldn't take much effort - I'd even volunteer to compile it - and I think it might be somewhat easier to read for comparisons.... Just a suggestion - I repeat - Just a suggestion. Good suggestion. It could be done on a web site in that format. It would be a great log. The question... Who would host it ??? Michael |
"-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 07:29:45p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 06:32:51p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "longwave" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what we're hearing. Have you ever done this? Chat programs arent my speed... You can post what you come up with right here and you'll get other people to check it out right away and respond with a reception report from their location. I usually just put that in my subject line the time and frequency and others check it out right away and report on it too. It would be kewl if we culd get a number of people to assemble for a particular night during a set two or three hour time slot and post their finds and stand ready to check out each others posts and respond to them with a reception report. Michael Someone in here has a chat-applet on his web-site and I wonder if it would be available and private enough? Alternatively, there are a variety of instant-messaging apps available. One possible downside I see to posting the results in RRS (as individual messages) is trying to read through them in order or having to navigate through the relevant posts without having to jump around. In any event, it wouldn't be that difficult to dump all the reports into a single DB or even some contest logging app, then post a single all-in-one report of the results from different locations - instead of having to sort through a long message thread and piece the reports back together in order. Formatted something like (but not limited to): Freq1 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (mode, SINPO, whatever) (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment Freq2 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment At the top or bottom you could list each listener's details. That wouldn't take much effort - I'd even volunteer to compile it - and I think it might be somewhat easier to read for comparisons.... Just a suggestion - I repeat - Just a suggestion. Good suggestion. It could be done on a web site in that format. It would be a great log. The question... Who would host it ??? Michael I was thinking of just posting the report in here... Or, were you talking about the participants recording their reports on a web site? I don't know if there are any freebie web sites that would allow that kind of scripting - there may be, I've never looked... But, if I wasn't thinking about web- enabling it, I was thinking about providing a text document (template) that each person would use to fill out their reception reports - they'd then email me the completed template and I'd compile them all together into one report. Something like that... That sounds good too. You could probably use an excel document to do it. If we were going to do this to compare how each of the participants received the same signal at the same time from their location, you could prepare the excel document before hand and fill in all the signals that we are supposed to report on. So... say we pick twenty specific signals... You put them on the excel spread sheet. Each participant fills out the spread sheet and when he/she is done, it is sent back to be compiled. Then it can just be cut and paste on to a master excel document with the listeners ID/Radio/Location as the heading above the copy/paste. Then, the final log is distributed back to all the participants via e-mail. Next... Who picks the 20 or so signals to check out ??? What time slot ??? Michael |
"-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 08:22:23p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 07:29:45p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "-=jd=-" wrote in message ... On Fri 04 Jun 2004 06:32:51p, "Michael" wrote in message t: "longwave" wrote in message ... Michael wrote: Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em a whirl on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight. Michael It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what we're hearing. Have you ever done this? Chat programs arent my speed... You can post what you come up with right here and you'll get other people to check it out right away and respond with a reception report from their location. I usually just put that in my subject line the time and frequency and others check it out right away and report on it too. It would be kewl if we culd get a number of people to assemble for a particular night during a set two or three hour time slot and post their finds and stand ready to check out each others posts and respond to them with a reception report. Michael Someone in here has a chat-applet on his web-site and I wonder if it would be available and private enough? Alternatively, there are a variety of instant-messaging apps available. One possible downside I see to posting the results in RRS (as individual messages) is trying to read through them in order or having to navigate through the relevant posts without having to jump around. In any event, it wouldn't be that difficult to dump all the reports into a single DB or even some contest logging app, then post a single all-in-one report of the results from different locations - instead of having to sort through a long message thread and piece the reports back together in order. Formatted something like (but not limited to): Freq1 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (mode, SINPO, whatever) (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment Freq2 - Station ID (listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment At the top or bottom you could list each listener's details. That wouldn't take much effort - I'd even volunteer to compile it - and I think it might be somewhat easier to read for comparisons.... Just a suggestion - I repeat - Just a suggestion. Good suggestion. It could be done on a web site in that format. It would be a great log. The question... Who would host it ??? Michael I was thinking of just posting the report in here... Or, were you talking about the participants recording their reports on a web site? I don't know if there are any freebie web sites that would allow that kind of scripting - there may be, I've never looked... But, if I wasn't thinking about web- enabling it, I was thinking about providing a text document (template) that each person would use to fill out their reception reports - they'd then email me the completed template and I'd compile them all together into one report. Something like that... That sounds good too. You could probably use an excel document to do it. If we were going to do this to compare how each of the participants received the same signal at the same time from their location, you could prepare the excel document before hand and fill in all the signals that we are supposed to report on. So... say we pick twenty specific signals... You put them on the excel spread sheet. Each participant fills out the spread sheet and when he/she is done, it is sent back to be compiled. Then it can just be cut and paste on to a master excel document with the listeners ID/Radio/Location as the heading above the copy/paste. Then, the final log is distributed back to all the participants via e-mail. Next... Who picks the 20 or so signals to check out ??? What time slot ??? Michael I wouldn't presume to pick the stations - I'll gladly follow someone else's lead there. I also thought a text doc would be the lowest common denominator for everyone - I don't know if everyone has excel... If there was some real-time chat available, the stations could be decided "on the fly" and the template I have in mind would accomodate that. I'd recommend using the K.I.S.S. design method at every opportunity... Sounds good to me... Lets see how many participants we can drum up.... Michael |
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