It was an interesting morning here in Arizona, too. I can't be sure how unusual the conditions were because I believe this is the first time I've tried for TP with my 7' x 24' Conti superloop. I use a low-pass filter to get rid of my local pests at 1450 and 1490, so my reception is limited to 1400 and below. Cheap RTL-SDR dongle with a Ham It Up upconverter and about 30dB of net amplification. Loop nulled toward 140 degrees, so the cardioid peak was 320.
I stayed up as late as I could, then let the SDR do the work. Quickly scanning through the ~30 minutes before local sunrise (1307UT), it looks like I did pretty well. I had some weak carriers that I had not seen with my tuned loop last season, although the best I could do with audio was semi-intelligible on 774. Adjacent splatter ruined possible audio from more frequencies. I'm assuming all of this was Asian. Looking forward to hearing from the PacNW crew! Weak audio: 774 Medium-strong carriers: 594, 693, 747, 828, 972, 1053 Weak carriers: 855, 936, 945, 1008, 1089, 1143, 1179 Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ [email protected] http://azswdxing.wordpress.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]
