Thinking about summer today: Insect mesh and fan installed. The fine mesh keeps all the fine dust from the meadows away from my PC fans, and the large fan managed to cool the air in the container by 2 degrees in 20 minutes in today’s test. This will come in handy in a few weeks’ time. The fan blows the air out of the container and the opening on the container wall was covered after the photo was taken.
My new ADS – an antenna disconnect switch to protect sensitive radio equipment from atmospheric overvoltages is finished. Thanks to Günter, DL4ZAO for development and documentation and to Rainer Bernedo, DF6RB for a perfect job. https://dl4zao.de/_downloads/ADS.pdf
I have now separated picture and sound from my remote PC, continue to use AnyDesk to transmit the picture from the PC at my station, but have switched off the audio transmission and use a small solution from a German radio amateur: RemAud – Remote Audio Software from DF3CB. This free software (but you can already send him a few stones with PayPal) is tailored exactly to our SDR requirements, can be set in many audio codecs and delivers an extremely good audio signal in 22 kHz PCM, 16 bit, for example, absolutely no comparison to the audio signals that come directly from the remote programmes like AnyDesk or Team Viewer. Of course, you can also use only 8 kHz with 8 bit, but this is often not necessary – but it is possible to save bandwidth, you can then transmit audio at less than 15 kB/s.
In October I could hear a weak signal from KDZR “La Patrona” 1640 from Oregon in Salzburg on 1640.0025. After almost four months, I now got a response from the West Coast. I have now heard and confirmed the 44th US state on medium wave in Salzburg.
Yes, that was excellent today towards Canada, here are my logs,
Perseus/Jaguar, 200 mt. Beverage 335°, 12.2.2024
1010 0530 CAN CFRB, Toronto/Clarkson (ON) 6758 km
1140 0530 CAN CBI, Sydney (NS) 5344 km
1200 0530 CAN CFGO, Ottawa (ON) 6400 km
1250 0300 CAN CJYE, Oakville (ON) 6769 km
1270 0359 CAN CJCB, Sydney (NS) 5336 km
1280 0500 CAN CFMB, Montreal (QC) 6254 km
1320 0500 CAN CJMR, Oakville (ON) 6769 km
1400 0459 CAN CBG, Gander (NL) 4824 km
1410 0545 CAN CJWI, Saint-Constant (QC) 6255 km
1430 0500 CAN CHKT, Toronto Island (ON) 6735 km
1540 0545 CAN CHIN, Toronto Island (ON) 6735 km
1550 0600 CAN CBEF, Windsor (ON) 7055 km
1570 0535 CAN CJLV, Laval (QC) 6258 km
1580 0600 CAN CKDO, Oshawa (ON) 6679 km
1610 0559 CAN CHHA, Toronto (ON) 6731 km
1650 0500 CAN CKZW, Montreal (QC) 6250 km
1690 0559 CAN CHTO, Toronto (ON) 6724 km
The end point of the two-wire beverage. The springs keep the wire under tension but can be stretched up to 20 cm so that the wire cannot break under storm and ice load. The terminator is located in the box and at the bottom you can see the earth electrode where the buried radials begin.
Mid-February at my station. The 200 meter Beverage has survived the winter with lots of snow and storms absolutely unscathed, everything is as mechanically sound as the day it was installed.
Don’t forget to protect the station, installed yesterday. The earthing cable was of course connected after the photo.
Last night, January 15, 2024, I was able to make a rare catch. Thomas Nilsson from Sweden was watching the now relatively free frequency 1548 kHz more closely late in the evening and was able to see a carrier on 1547.989, presumably coming from the south. The carrier could be seen very well on my 200 meter Africa Beverage, but reception was not possible due to Radio Farda on exactly 1548 kHz. At 2330 UT the station from Kuwait ended its programme and a clear station and programme announcement from Radio Islam from Lenasia near Johannisburg in South Africa could be heard in Salzburg. The 1 kW station confirmed reception to me this morning. Possibly the first reception of Radio Islam in Europe.
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