Strong here in southern Wisconsin, 20 to 25 dB above my noise floor, coming
from my west. ~270 degrees
N9LB EN52
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ken and Gang,
>
> I went back outside at 7:30am this morning with both my tuned loop and
> portable flag and both antennas indicate the same approximate heading I
> reported last night which is around 265 and 270 degrees from my location in
> Fishers IN (39°59’45”N,86°00’52”W) give or take a little bit. Much easier
> to get a heading with my portable flag than the tuned loop, but the results
> are the same.
>
> My biggest problem has always been acquiring an accurate compass heading
> using my crude sighting methods. My above reported heading was acquired
> with an Iphone compass set to True North. When the source is far away any
> slight inaccuracies in compass bearing makes a huge difference so we need
> more bearings from closer into the source for better accuracy. Will be
> interesting to see what bearing you report.
>
> 73,
> Don (wd8dsb)
>
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> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:16 AM Kenneth G. Gordon <
> kgordon2006@frontier.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, I meant to send this to the entire forum. Sorry, Guys.
> >
> > 7195 kHz, 0339Z, S-8.5, at GRID DM16mr, some QSB
> >
> > As soon as it warms up a bit here, and IFF that carrier is still there by
> > then, I'll get my loop out
> > and see if I can get a direction to it and will post that to the forum.
> >
> > I have a working Stoddart NM-20B with accessories which might do the
> trick.
> >
> > KEN W7EKB
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