Hi all, Activity day
Here is all the reception here: Western Sydney, NSW Australia QF56HG 7177KHz Mode 700D. www.unixservice.com.au/parrot/2022feb/ Here you'll find "audio from the radio" and "decoded". I'd ask you all to download files and adjust your mic levels as some are very quiet. VK2TTL - quite good VK5DGR - good VK3RV - good 73 Alan VK2ZIW On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:03:50 +1100, David Grove wrote > Hi David & Mooneer > > First of all thank you to both of you for all your work in advancing > FreeDV/Codec2. Its very much appreciated > > I like the idea of having a three-monthly activity day that, where feasible, > occurs just after other major activities (Hamventions etc) > > On the activity day, I tried calling CQ on 7.177 MHz and 14.236 MHz on > several different modes from my home QTH (QRN S3-5) a few times with no > success. > > I also happened to be monitoring QSO finder when David, VK5DGR and Mel, K0PFX > were testing on 14.246 MHz. Unfortunately, nothing was heard at my end on > that frequency at the time. > > At the end of the activity day, I checked PSK reporter and was unable to find > any reports of my callsign on FreeDV > > I did however hear Alan, VK2ZIWs parrot on a couple of occasions on the day. > However, Alan is about 20 Km from me, so the 40m signal was marginal > > Nevertheless, Ill keep on trying to reduce the QRN levels at my place and > Ill keep installing the new versions of FreeDV as theyre released > > Im looking forward to the next activity day > > Thanks again > > Regards > > > David Grove VK2DWG > > -----Original Message----- > From: david <da...@rowetel.com> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 12:32 > To: freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freetel-codec2] Fwd: [Announcement] FreeDV Activity Day - > February 19-20, 2022 > > > 1. It looks like May 28th-29th will be best for the next one as Dayton > > is the weekend prior and there seem to be a fair number of other > > contests across the rest of the month. Does that sound reasonable? > > Every 3 months sounds good. Like this time, I'll attempt to have a new > experimental waveform/codec to try out in May. > > > 2. If you operated this one, how did it work out for you? > > I managed to receive Mel, k0pfx long path 20M here in South Australia, 1-4dB > SNR on 700D. I positioned myself in a campground 200km SE of Adelaide > (Parnka Point, in an area known as the Coorong) with sub S0 noise on 20m. > Simple end fed dipole. > > I also monitored/took part in a few VK QSOs and was pleased to see the modems > handling the HF channel quite well. > > Pretty happy about that :-) > > Thanks for organising the event Mooneer :-) > > - David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freetel-codec2 mailing list > Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2 --------------------------------------------------- Alan VK2ZIW Before the Big Bang, God, Sela. OpenWebMail 2.53, nothing in the cloud.
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