Craig - The experiments sound encouraging if you can work out the kinks. I think that if I had the receiver at a site that is obviously "juiced" towards one DX target or another (Latin America in the case of your south-facing shore site at WNBH), I'd do some RF recordings that could be offloaded from the remote-site PC drive in person at a later date or maybe sooner via Internet FTP (but the files might be too huge for that, though).
A top-of-hour +/- 3 minutes swing at 530-720 kHz and one at 720-910 should get the ball rolling. These tend to be Latin America happy hunting grounds: more apt to be aurorally-affected than the higher segments of the band. You should be able to pull a gaggle of ID's out of a few of these 6 minute RF captures. Much of it will be "just those dang Cubans" later into the evening, but you may occasionally stumble into something more exotic, especially a bit after sunset. Keep us informed. I used to have access to family houses in West Yarmouth and East Harwich that would have been perfect for this stuff, but the technology happened about 10 years too late. Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA -----Original Message----- From: Craig Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AM-DX List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 8:03 am Subject: SDR-14 remote update I've been working on setting up the SDR-14 so it can be accessed remotely. Right now it's set up in New Bedford at the WNBH-1340 transmitter site. Just a simple antenna for the moment, a ferrite loop on a tripod sitting on the workbench. It's turned to null the tower (15m/50' away). There's also a notch filter and this has brought 1340 down to equal levels with the 1420 station a mile away. I could hear stuff on 1360 last night. So far the SDR server program has produced only very choppy and unusable audio. I have been able to run it by using the regular Spectravue program through PCAnywhere. Audio is delivered by a streaming audio encoder. For a simple inside loop, results from that site have been *very* interesting. SS on about every channel from 530 to 820, including way over WABC-770 and WOR-710 and under/over CKAC-730 among others. The loop is nulling NYC as well as the local tower, it seems. I'm working with some people to try to resolve the audio and control glitch. If it can be made to work, this could be a real bonus. Picture one permanently at Grayland or Newfoundland... Craig Healy Providence, RI ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
