For those of you that were interested, there was another test performed on 30m and 40m to establish additional supporting data. The good news is that we confirmed groundwave/NVIS distance of 28 miles with no problems on either 0.5 watts or 5 watts. The bad news was that the receiving station near Claremore (KC5SHE) was operating using a hand microphone, instead of the traditional rigblaster setup. That posed some challenges with the background noise from the room, so none of the measurements will be posted at this time, as the variances were pretty high.
We are looking to do another test this Wednesday, October 22nd. Looks like KC5SHE will have his Rigblaster running at that time. That should give us results that will be repeatable and worthy of being published.
For those of you that would like to participate, here are the specifics:
6 PM (7036 khz, 1500 hz center frequency)
6:30 PM (10140 khz, 1500 hz center frequency)
PSK-125 will be the starting mode, with a switch to PSK-250. All transmissions will start with an identifier, so make sure to set your FLDIGI software to translate that appropriately. If you have questions regarding setup of FLDIGI, contact me at ae5me@yahoo.com.
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