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Band Watch => 40 Meters => Topic started by: WA3VJB on April 25, 2012, 08:43:51 PM



Title: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: WA3VJB on April 25, 2012, 08:43:51 PM
40M the other night, W1VD and WA1HLR.

Nice.



Title: Aircheck: WN3B
Post by: WA3VJB on April 25, 2012, 08:52:01 PM
Mike is running a 1940s broadcast transmitter re-worked and re-tuned to 40 meters.

HI Hi FB signal OM


Title: Aircheck: K5IIA
Post by: WA3VJB on April 25, 2012, 09:01:48 PM
Brandon in Louisiana as received in Maryland on 40M the other night.

Rapid, shallow fading like this is when I really wish I had synchronous detection.

Still, plenty of margin to the signal, nice S/N ratio the whole transmission.


Title: Aircheck: WD8BIL on Derb's rig
Post by: WA3VJB on April 25, 2012, 09:13:22 PM
Buddly fired up Derb's FT101 to help mark Tim's birthday this week.
N3DRB would have been 49.

We were reflecting on having gotten together at Carol and Frank's, where a wee bit of Derb now lives ...

40 meters, evening late April 2012

Receiver:  Hammarlund SP600


Title: Aircheck: WD2AFJ
Post by: WA3VJB on April 26, 2012, 05:32:34 AM
Ray, WD2AFJ at Phillipsburg NJ quite strong one late afternoon on 40m. I think this was Sunday 04/22/2012.


Title: Aircheck: WA3WMI
Post by: WA3VJB on April 26, 2012, 05:33:55 AM
Joe, WA3WMI can often be found on 40M daytime.

This was late afternoon and 7290Kc was delightfully clear of international BC interference.



Title: Aircheck: K5UJ and KA3BVJ
Post by: WA3VJB on April 26, 2012, 05:36:24 AM
First couple times I worked Rob K5UJ I thought he was in 5-land. Uh, no.  Near Chicago.  A nice toss with good signals into Maryland in late April, 2012

Hello to Dennis KA3BVJ as well -- normally stronger than this.  Guess the band was going long.


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: K5UJ on April 26, 2012, 06:24:08 AM
Paul tnx for the recordings.  QRN at ur QTH was worse than I thought.


Title: Re: Aircheck: WA3WMI
Post by: pe1mph on April 26, 2012, 08:48:19 AM
Joe, WA3WMI can often be found on 40M daytime.
This was late afternoon and 7290Kc was delightfully clear of international BC interference.

Thanks for the nice recordings! :)
Sorry but in Europe we never  can hear AM from the USA on 7290 khz!
This freq. is in use by BC stations...

Greetings,

Henk, pe1mph


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: WA3VJB on April 27, 2012, 11:57:05 AM
Paul tnx for the recordings.  QRN at ur QTH was worse than I thought.

Static chases me away from 80M come late Spring, except maybe late afternoon.

By comparison, 40M sounds like the dead of winter ...


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: K5IIA on April 28, 2012, 02:08:12 AM
thanks for taking the time to record and transfer to mp3 Paul. its amazing what you can do with a few old cheap 813s and some wire up in a tree.


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: Opcom on April 28, 2012, 02:43:31 AM
The quality was excellent, sounded like good operating practice.


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: W2NBC on April 28, 2012, 07:58:46 AM
Aircheck late afternoon. If you listen carefully you can hear some tape rolling in the background.. ;)

WA3VJB


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: WA3VJB on April 28, 2012, 08:37:10 AM
Hey thanks, Jeff ! 

We have come a long way from physically mailing tape recordings back and forth, and I still have some from TimTron and HUZ that were made 20+ years ago. 

I don't sound nearly so much like an old buzzard as now, hmmmm....


Title: Re: Aircheck: WN3B
Post by: KX5JT on April 28, 2012, 08:58:32 AM
Mike is running a 1940s broadcast transmitter re-worked and re-tuned to 40 meters.

HI Hi FB signal OM

What is that strange "water dripping" sound?


Title: Re: What 40M nighttime sounds like (aircheck recordings)
Post by: Steve - K4HX on April 28, 2012, 11:03:47 AM
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
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