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  • in reply to: SAQ received in Bucharest, Romania #7733
    Cezar Vener
    Participant

    Good morning!
    1 year from my first attempt to receive the SAQ transmission (see above).
    For this time, I tried in an open field from the west side of my city (Bucharest), using a ferrite antenna, an active converter with SA612 and my IC-7300 transceiver.
    The ferrite antenna has an inductance of 18 mH and is tuned on 17.2 KHz with a fixed 4.7nF capacitor and a variable one (15-550 pF). The converter is the typical schematic from the NE612 application note, but I put in the front of it an RF cascode preamp (FET+BJT) – around 20dB @12V. The carrier crystal is 10.7 MHz.
    Here is the preamp schematic and LTSpice simulations results:

    RF cascode preamp

    The 4uH coil is made only for test & measuring reasons (is a matching to 50 ohm port of my test equipment); after the alignment, I simply removed it.

    AC simulation

    Noise simulation for J310 and 2N2222

    And this is my open field setup (cclick to enlarge) :

    setup1

    This is a clip from the first transmission (9 UTC):

    The frequency is 10717.25 ; it has a small 50Hz lift, but I didn’t tried to readjust.
    I have a todo list for some improvements of the VLF converter, I will return to publish the project when will be ready.

    Best regards,
    Cezar YO3FHM

    in reply to: SAQ received in Bucharest, Romania #6497
    Cezar Vener
    Participant

    @Bernd: Congratulations for your receiver, Bernd! Works nice, and I suppose that in that “green” field you are far away from electric and EM interferences. Good job!
    In my location, I have many problems with switching power supplies, different inverters, etc.
    Look here how bad was the local VLF spectrum in the morning, at the 1st SAQ transmission:

    I put a digital edited MP3 with the content of the 1st SAQ transmission here .

    Fortunately, I had slightly good conditions at the 3rd SAQ transmission:
    3rd1
    and screenshot #2:
    3rd2
    For this session, I didn’t make any digital edit.

    I also tried to receive with the miniWhip connected to the soundcard, using Spectrum Lab.
    Look at the images below (click on them to enlarge):

    The captured audio from the soundcard session is here:
    Record #1
    Record #2

    I know that is not much, but considering the perturbations around, I am OK with what I done today.
    Hope that the next time will be better !

    Regards from Bucharest,
    Cezar YO3FHM

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