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K0OD

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EU on 630 From the Midwest
« on: January 12, 2019, 09:41:13 PM »

No transmitting ability here on 630-M but 474.2 KHz WSPR reception is excellent this week. Midwestern reporters are printing quite a few Europeans... EI0, DK, GM.  Ground at my Missouri QTH is covered with a foot of fresh snow right now. Don't know if that helps. Also hearing KL7 and KH6 occasionally this week.

My usual receiving antenna is an E-Probe up 30' on a pole about 25' out from the house. After testing the E-Probe for a year I can say it hears well, as reported on WSPR. If hams within a few hundred miles of me are reporting DX, I can *usually* print it too. A few deep rural neighbors usually hear a few dB better than I do. 
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N0YXB

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RE: EU on 630 From the Midwest
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2019, 09:18:00 AM »

Interesting. I listen to 630 meters off and on and unfortunately missed that activity. I'll make it a point to listen more this weekend.
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K0OD

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RE: EU on 630 From the Midwest
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2019, 12:15:10 PM »

Vince, I saw that you were monitoring WSPR for awhile on 630-m yesterday. Noise from rain is now limiting reception in the St Louis area.  Only DX station printed here was K9FD(/KH6) who has a superb station right on the ocean in Hawaii, a former broadcast site. Almost no EU copied last night in the midwest.

I often use WSJT-X software to monitor 630 WSPR overnight. Problem is my Flex-5000 tends to lock up occasionally and has to be reset. My current station on longwave is a Flex-5000, old Palomar LW converter and a LF Engineering E-Probe. QTH is Town & Country.
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N0YXB

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RE: EU on 630 From the Midwest
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2019, 08:41:35 AM »

I sometimes leave WSJT-X running on 630 to monitor WSPR overnight. Wish I had been doing that when you were hearing EU stations. Last night the most distant station I heard was VE7BDQ up in British Columbia. I'm using a compromise long wire up here in the Saint Charles county suburbs. One of these days I'm thinking of adding an E-Probe.
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K0OD

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RE: EU on 630 From the Midwest
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2019, 09:47:18 AM »

Maybe that was the start -- and finish -- of the 630m EU DX season. Virtually no Europeans now being reported around us.
BTW, I've yet to print anything on the band from VK/ZL

This is a good reference on longwave propagation news: http://njdtechnologies.net/category/630-meter-daily-reports/
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