SAQ transmission on October 24th 2020 (NOT FOR QSL)

[AlexanderSAQ]

More information about the transmission
The transmission is on 17,2 kHz CW.
Startup of the transmitter around 16.30 UTC
Transmission of a message at 17.00 UTC

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[Wojciech SP5SMK]

This time the signal was relatively weak and with SNR around 10dB. Howewer after additional amplification and filtering of the recorded signal I was able to decode all transmission. Reception site was Milanówek, 25km SW from Warsaw, Poland. Receiver was standalone with conversion from 17.2 to 0.8 kHz and ferrite rod antenna.
Wojciech SP5SMK

[Manuel Lausmann]

Strong signal received near Frankfurt am Main in the middle of Germany

[Rabbe Fogelholm]

Outdoor recording in Sollentuna, Sweden, JO89xk. Very damp weather and less-than-ideal antenna. Capture of the SAQ signal made directly with Audacity on laptop and exported as 44100 samples/s 16-bit mono WAV file.

Offline analysis of the WAV file indicates that SAQ was sending at 17206 Hz?

Using the very versatile HDSDR program (www.hdsdr.de) in CW mode I was able to write down the message of the day, after really many listenings due to poor S/N ratio. A lot of fun; thanks to all who made this possible!

[Jens Romeikat]

reception in nothern-germany (500 km distance) whith Indoor-frame-antenna and regenerative receiver.
(“beat-reception” 100 Hz)
short recordings here:
https://www.wumpus-gollum-forum.de/forum/thread.php?board=58&thread=400&page=2#18

Jens

[Wolfgang Sprodofsky]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen

I have received your Transmission today (24.10.2020) at 15 UTC with RST 589 on 17,2kHz on my QTH 13507 Berlin , loc: JO62PN .

My Hardware for your Station:

Ant : End-Fed 24m grounded with many burried radials
VLF-Converter : (0…600)kHz —> (2000…2600)kHz with Tubes , Home-made
TRX : FT991A , Mode CW , BW: 100 Hz
Decoder-SW : CW-Get

vy 73 es 55 de Wolfgang , DM2SP

[Stefano Canavesi]

Beautiful transmission, received loud and clear in Lugano, south of Switzerland. My movie:

[Axel]

Hi,

Good Signal. RST: 478 in 19243 Wittenburg Germany (JO53MM)
World receiver “Tecsun PL660” with selfmade UP-Converter and MiniWhip Antenna.

Many thanks to the team at SAQ!

Viele Grüße,

Axel 🙂

[Vadim]

Great signal today. 569 in Pskov Region of Russia
RSP-1A VOGD antenna
Video

73 de UA1ZFG /VLF RULEZZ/

[Pascal Deveaux]

Hi,
I have a doubt about the start of the transmission. I didn’t hear anything at 1500 utc.

“17:00 (15:00 UTC): Transmission of a message from SAQ”

I will listen again at 1700 UTC

Thanks,

Pascal FR5DH

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