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(meteorobs) Fwd: [HSMS] R26's Texas Style...
>From: "Randy Tipton" <wa5ufh@ykc.com>
>To: <VHF-Digital@yahoogroups.com>, "hsms" <hsms@qthdot net>
>Subject: [HSMS] R26's Texas Style...
>Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 16:24:31 -0500
>Reply-To: "Randy Tipton" <wa5ufh@ykc.com>
>
>I often listen for beacons on meteor scatter. One that I hear real
>often is NĜLL's beacon in Smith Center Ks. I have never really figured
>out why I can copy it most anytime if I only listen a few seconds.I
>decided to set up WSJT in the monitor mode with the beacon tuned for
>the lower tone (R26) and let it run. I did this once before but had so
>many pings I didn't tell anyone because I figured it would be hard to
>get people to believe me, I had R26's decoded for each minute period
>for 24 hours!
>
>With the meteors being so good last night I decided to set up WSJT
>once again in the monitor mode and let it run. The start time was
>0200UTC and the end time is 11:36 UTC. Here are my results...
>
>0200 - 0259 132 R26's
>0300 - 0359 274 R26's 1 RRR
>0400 - 0459 235 R26's 2 RRR
>0500 - 0559 254 R26's 1 RRR
>0600 - 0659 268 R26's
>0700 - 0759 342 R26's
>0800 - 0859 528 R26's
>0900 - 0959 664 R26's
>1000 - 1059 885 R26's
>1100 - 1136 409 R26's
>
>Total of 3,991 occurrences of Single Tone Decoding
>
>Total of 3,987 R26's
>Total of 4 RRR's (For each one of the RRR's the tone db's were
>displayed properly for the third tone being high)
>I do not know if the beacon changed frequency or what happened. What
>ever the reason I am impressed with the near perfect decoding of
>WSJAT.
>
>Please note, I am not saying there were 3,991 pings. To determine the
>number of actual pings one has to go back and look at the data very
>closely. This can be done by looking at the grouping of "R26's" in
>each (T) period.
>
>I have the data if anyone wants to view it. After using the option to
>save the text to the 'decode.cum' file it can be loaded into Microsoft
>Excell. The only thing that could be improved here is for excel to be
>able to recognize the time. (Without the colons between the hours,
>minutes and seconds excel refused to accept it as being a time format)
>
>About the NĜLL beacon. It is located in Smith Center, Ks. I have been
>copying it on meteor scatter for years since moving to South Texas. My
>location is EL19 and the beacon is EM09. On my beacon list it is shown
>to be a Hallo with 20 watts. Maybe Larry can share his beacon details
>with the group. The beacon is about 723 miles from my qth. Would be
>interesting to see if someone else abt the same distance would have
>the same results. I tune in the CW mode to 50.0776 for the lower R26
>tone.
>
>I plan to do this test several times. As I'm typing this the cw keeps
>rolling in from Ks every few seconds.
>
>Randy
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