Unfortunately got to my Perseus only after 14:00, at which time, I too had 1575 (along with a carrier just below 1575) at fairly good levels. This continued to 1575 with VOA programming. I'm happy to report that having spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon, I was able to locate a couple of faults in my antenna system, which have been now repaired. On my North facing corner fed loop, I found that my termination resistors were faulty. I had 3 in series to make about 980 ohms, and when checked, I was getting infinity! I wasn't sure where the fault was, so I removed these 3 and found one of the three faulty. These were replaced with an appropriate single resistor and weather proofed, and now it works fine. My backyard neighbour constructed a hot top right in the vicinity of this antenna, as well as my ALA 100 loop, which is above my garage, but the coax runs down by the not tub. I noticed that the coax had been moved, during the construction. Climbing the roof, one of the wires to the ALA was off! No wonder the performance was so poor and noisy! That was quickly fixed. I'm now back in the game! The noise that I've struggled with for a while, just might be diminished greatly. At least my signals this morning were on par, or perhaps just a bit stronger than Nick's DX Fishbarrel! 73, Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Nigel Pimblett <nige2...@telus.net> wrote: > As Richard said, an unusual morning. A quick check at 1200 showed > nothing but DU carriers, with traces of audio from presumed 4BC on 1116. > At 1300 it was much the same, with 612 and 792 being very close to audio > but not quite making it. Still not a trace of a TP. Then about 1325 > TP-based carriers suddenly seemed to take over. Weak audio noted on 774 > and 828. Pretty sure it was Japan, though too weak to claim 100% > certainty. There was no uncertainty about VOA on 1575 though as it came up > to a fair level, approaching good at times, with the 1330 ID easily making > it. This window only lasted about 10 minutes though, then the TPs faded > back into weakish carriers. > > 73, > > Nigel Pimblett > Dunmore, Alberta > ______________________________**_________________ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/**mailman/listinfo/irca<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: irca@hard-core-dx.com > > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com