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UPDATED: May-9, 2020
Propagation signal to noise equation posted in "Required S/N" page on this website. The equation is valid for all receiver passbands, and is for morse code, SSB, and AM..
It will give you the required signal to noise value for use in any propagation program which requires it. See www.greg-hand.com and look for the download page for this excellent program. See the "about" page for required signal to noise information, and other info.
I have read the OK0EU beacon website. It is very interesting to look at, and very detailed with the reception reports. See the report by W6NZK on 03-03-2004 about his reception of the beacon almost every night from 10 pm until almost sunrise, local time, on the 40 meter band ( 7038.5 ). At the time the beacon was running 1 watt into an attic loop antenna, a picture of it is on the website. This is about 5800 miles and the S-7 report he gave the beacon is very good for that distance.
The website is at: http://ok0eu.fud.cz It is one of the better beacon sites.Deserves a good look at.
In the summer of 2007, we had a fantastic amount of Sporadic-E and it showed on CB channel 6 (27.025 ) Channel 6 is the first indicator of skip. Keep monitoring the bands for the next season.
Well, the Sporadic-E season was upon us last year, we had a good performance. On May 11,2004, CB skip from Montreal was copied here in Toronto quite well on 27.015 and 27.245 and was in French, quite distinguishable from other skip from the southern USA. This was quite unusual, for such short skip only happens when the Muf is quite high, which it was. Do keep tabs on the above website for news!
On June 10, 2006 there was an opening on the FM band, with an NPR station on 90.7 Mhz reported around 6 pm. This was KSLA from Monroe, Louisiana!!
Edgar Heinen
May-9-2020
Hello.
Recently I have read a few websites about the old 405 line TV stations in Great Britain. I used to get the audio of BBC 1 from Crystal Palace in London back in Dec 1979, on 41.50 Mhz. Also I used to get the French audio from France on 41.25 Mhz. as well, due to the high sunspot number back then. The video carrier from BBC 1 was quite audible on 45.000 Mhz with it's characteristic 50 Hz buzz as well. It was probably strong enough to give fairly good video at the time. Also video buzz on 49.75 Mhz from the former Soviet satellite countries as well, like Poland, or Czechoslovakia??
Today we do not have these stations anymore, ( BBC and France ), they are off the air. But video from Spain is still available on 48.250 Mhz, for anyone who wants to pursue this interesting facet of DX ing. Also 49.75 Mhz video from former Soviet sattellite countries may still come in during the next solar maximum, which is supposed to be spectacular. Then Wellington CH 1 audio from New Zealand may also make an appearance on 50.75 Mhz. This may be gone by now.
