Wednesday 15 August 2012

137kHz Op32 Last Night

I ran Opera32 mode overnight last night and received reports from: G4WGT, PA0A, G3XBM, G0NBD, GW0EZY, IK1WVQ, RN3AGC and TF3HZ. That's six countries!

IW1WVQ was a new one for me and was 1064km away. He copied me solidly from 2242 to 0345, and gave me signal to noise reports between -32 and -38dB, the best being just before dawn.

RN3AGC (at 2483km) decoded my transmission twice giving me -38dB at 2348UTC and -35 at 0126.

A later, offline report from RN3AUS (2440km) gave me -36dB S/N in a single decode at 0126UTC.

The most interesting thing was the very long period over which TF3HZ decoded every transmission.
02:32    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -29 dB in Reykjavik
01:59    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -28 dB in Reykjavik
01:26    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -28 dB in Reykjavik
00:54    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -26 dB in Reykjavik
00:21    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -32 dB in Reykjavik
23:48    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -36 dB in Reykjavik
23:15    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -30 dB in Reykjavik
22:43    136 G3XDV de TF3HZ Op32 1858 km -36 dB in Reykjavik