[10gigs] [Midwest-Microwave] [10GHz-Up] K9AYA 10G Beacon - EM79QK

[Gedas]

Thanks for the feedback Gary !

Yes that was a bad blunder on my part thinking the camcorder would be 
able to pick up the CW. I can hear the CW in and out in the WAV file but 
that is about all. Also Bill is going to slow down the CW which will 
help a lot I think. One comment about the waterfall.....I have this Flex 
waterfall adjusted to show a flea-fart from a block away <g>. I tweaked 
it for several hours strictly for uW weak signals. I have it set on the 
hairy edge and the way it is set right now even a weak signal looks 
"impressive". For example the CW never rose more than about 5 dB above 
an averaged noise floor. But that 5 dB, like you said looks pretty 
substantial. It really comes in handy when I am running a sked with 
someone and we are both aligning our dishes......the slightest hint of 
his signal and I will see him.

Anyway TU for looking/listening. I will post better WAV's once the 
signal comes back up. Right now it is only visible 10% of the time as 
this rain/cold front just hit us. 73

Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT

Gallery at http://w8bya.com (under repair)
Light travels faster than sound....
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

On 4/19/2021 4:12 PM, Gary E. Kohtala via groups.io wrote:
>
> Hello Sir,
>
> Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately I could not hear any CW in the 
> video. I assume you used an acoustic  method instead of hard wiring 
> the receiver audio into a line or mic input.  The shack background 
> noise and your voice audio apparently covered it.  Reminds me of 
> working with my CWOPS CW Academy class over the internet.  An ALC like 
> action in Skype and other video conferencing software automatically 
> adjusts the mic level. That's caused problems
> sending to each other as it creates a pumping affect which renders the 
> CW uncopiable. Turning off the automatic mic level and manually 
> adjusting permitted us to more or less overcome the problem.  From the 
> substantial trace on the waterfall I'd say that the CW signal should 
> have been quite copiable.  I have decades of experience copying weak 
> CW in noisy environments but there just wasn't enough to work with in 
> the two files. I just started to hear CW in the last few seconds of 
> the .WAV file but it was too weak to copy.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gary, K7EK
>
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> On Apr 19, 2021, at 15:03, W8BYA Gedas EN70JT <w8bya at mchsi.com 
> <mailto:w8bya at mchsi.com>> wrote:
>
>     Bill, K9AYA in EM79QK has set up a temporary 10 GHz beacon running
>     80 mW at the feedpoint of a small horn antenna pointed at me. It
>     is tripod mounted 4' off the ground looking into trees. Bill is
>     162 km from me (100 miles). I have enclosed two URL's.....one is a
>     video and one is a WAV file.
>
>     Several things.....my sincere apologies to Bill as I gave the
>     wrong call for Bill !  Sorry Bill. Correct call is K9AYA. Also I
>     thought if I turned up the volume of my rig the video handicam
>     might pick up the beacons CW but all it did was make the
>     background noise real high. So my apologies for a crappy noisy video.
>
>     I am wondering if anyone can copy the CW from the WAV file? I am
>     not a good CW op and I can tell it is there but it is too fast and
>     too low in S/N for me to copy. I am hoping that if others can hear
>     it there may be hope for me and means I best get practicing. Hope
>     you enjoy:
>
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A0uwuj4E9QXNJQczCmZGDwQvOWRQPq-9/view?usp=sharing
>
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w1mL2ueNV0bm0Oyw88FB4lrNqlrRc699/view?usp=sharing
>
>     Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
>
>     Gallery athttp://w8bya.com  (under repair)
>     Light travels faster than sound....
>     This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
>
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