I will complete the QSL form for this morning’s transmission later, just wanted to leave a few notes on the forum. My location is Cardiff (West side) Wales UK. Today I decided to try the antenna configuration discussed elsewhere on this forum by Jean Marie F5VLB and in my instance it was two earth rods 25m apart aligned on a line pointing to SAQ.

The signal from the earth rods was passed through the primary of an isolating ferrite transformer, the secondary signal amplified slightly and fed into Laptop sound input, signal being recorded and processed by Audacity.

It’s difficult to put a meaningful dB figure to the signal but the signal was strong. Plenty of wideband noise also, that I assume is from lightning storms etc. The noise was never strong enough to mask the signal so I was able to read every character with confidence and the message is exactly as given on the YouTube video with one exception – the preamble to the message that I received with 100% certainty was as follows ……CQ CQ CQ DE SAQ SAQ SAQ = THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO…….

The dual earth rod antenna worked well.