Svar till: Traditional Christmas Eve Transmission December 24th, 2015 @ 08:00 UTC

[Gudmund Wannberg SM3BYA]

Hello there and a Merry Christmas to the whole SAQ team!

Thank you very much for today’s transmission. I had excellent copy throughout here in central Sweden (locator JP81nx) – but I could tell that the old lady was a wee bit indisposed today; the TX frequency shifted by some 10-20 Hz from time to time about halfway into the message.

Your signal was so strong throughout the whole transmission that the backwave was clearly audible, about -15 dB or so below the key-down level. At the very end, after you had signed off, the backwave was still there for some 20 – 30 seconds, but then it suddenly went WHOOP downwards in frequency and died out. So now I know how the signal sounds when you turn off the alternator- sort of a Christmas bonus! Wonder how many others could copy the backwave…

Receiving on a 1 m long E-field probe + upconverter to 3.5 MHz, feeding a NRD-515

73
Gudmund SM3BYA