HAARP here was S9 plus 20 db on my old SB-104A on 6.990. The SSB was also
heard, and the unintelligle jibberish that I think might be FM or
encrypted SSB of some kind. Antenna was the 40m indoor dipole, but the
outdoor sloping Vee fed with a tuner an dTV line also showed about S9
+10-20 db.
On 81m (?), I took a tuning wand to the SB-644 Remote VFO and tweaked itr
low enough to tune to 3.3 to 3.4 Mhz at the low end. I think I just could
make out the HAARP carrier on 3.4 Mhz, but there was a lot of Lids
sending QRL? and QRZ? plus the usual South / Central American QRM I get
on 80m here.
It took me a while to tweak the VFO low enough to hear the "outta band"
signals, so I didn't really get to listen long before the transmissions
ended. Only had the outdoor sloping Vee to tune for 81m, so not the best
antenna. It's only 35' per leg.
Lotsa guys were commenting on the HAARP test on 75m phone, and passing
the details to one another so they could get a QSL even if they didn't
actually hear the sigs or couldn't copy CW. Figures. Typical 75m
mentality, I'm sorry to say.
I didn't see any changes in propagation folowing the tests, and didn't
really expect to. Would have been neat to see what effect it would /
would not have had during a FOX hunt! Wonder if there was any aurora up
that way and if it "wiggled" as the ops transmitted their CW test? :-)
73,
Gary Surrency AB7MY
S&S TAC-1(40&80m) and ARK30, AT-11 (QRO and QRP)
QRP-L #571 Chandler, AZ (near Phoenix)Grid Square DM43BH
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