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HF Beacons / Re: The Desert Whooper
« on: August 20, 2021, 0007 UTC »
Great posting, and I'm really glad to hear that DW is back to making serious RF! Very strong on the usual Kiwis tonight
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Great - thank you.
I may have to borrow the other laptop for this - the cheap laptop at the radio desk is running from a plug-in USB sound I/O that I now realise only has mono input.
Further, I'd like to explore going really mobile with Belka and a spectrum analyser to check out HiFERs from other locations. A brief test with the laptop and the Belka receiving with the whip resulted in 5&9 reports to the computer, traced to the screen. Second test was to try a small tuned loop. Care with the feed decoupled most of the QRM from the PC. I think this had promise, but for the test, conditions were just awful.
Ed