[RMVHF] Greetings from Montana!

[Mark M]

Hi Lance!  I have been thinking about acquiring an SDR-IQ, and I think 
you have now put me over the edge.  I had one here in my shack last year 
for a few days playing with it and was impressed with using it looking 
for lowfer/NDB beacons between 137-500 kcs.  By the way there are many 
meteors out there just no one listening like we used too.  I listen in 
to you running on six EME here quite often and never fail to hear you 
when I catch your skeds listed on the JT65 EME page.

73, Mark, Ku7z
DN41af
Ogden, Northern UT (NUT)


LANCE COLLISTER wrote:
> Richard Harrod wrote:
>  > Lance, sometime look for the K7KMT/b just West of Gillette,WY on 2m.
>  > 144.298 in DN64 Good luck. Richard K7TNT DN74
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Richard! I think it would be tough for me to 
> hear a
> beacon station at that distance, although it might be possible to work a 
> well
> equipped station at the same location. But I appreciate the tip, and 
> will have to
> listen for it next time I have the 2m array untied.
> 
> One thing I have begun experimenting with here that makes it easier to spot
> beacons like that is my SDR-IQ receiver. Since I use 28 MHz receive 
> converters
> for both 2m and 6m, I just built a little splitter so I could send the 
> 28 MHz
> signals to the SDR-IQ as well as my TS-830S. With the SDR-IQ I can 
> easily (and
> literally) "watch" a 190 KHz wide segment of whichever band's converter is
> activated. It is especially fun to watch signals pop in and out on 6m 
> during Es
> season, but I am looking forward to actually using it more as a receiver 
> (as
> opposed to just a spectrum display) to copy really weak signals and 
> elminate line
> noise on both bands.
> 
> There are several software programs that work well with the SDR-IQ to 
> display the
> spectrum and permit you to receive whatever frequency you click on with 
> your
> mouse. Spectravue comes with the SDR-IQ, and Winrad is a very powerful 
> but easy
> to use program that also works with it. But the most sensitive and 
> powerful is
> definitely Linrad, which I am just starting to play with.
> 
> VY 73, Lance
> 
> -- 
> Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
> P.O. Box 73
> Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA
> QTH: DN27UB
> TEL: (406) 626-5728 URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
> 2m DXCC #11, 6m DXCC #815
> 
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