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Heavy Snow Fall and SBX signals heading into space
Been -7 C or 22 F for the last 5 days. Probably 3 feet of snow in that time. Vikki couldn't get the snow off the greenhouse......this pic is taken when she first started. She used a long pole which has worked before but this snow is just too heavy... but she did manage to clean off the temporary tarp shelter where the two quads are stored.
Our daily walk in the fresh snow had Bee howling. She still wanted to come but was really distressed so Vikki went back and picked her up. She walked the last 100 yards back to the cabin.
Vikki checked with Don Taylor about that Comment by Anonymous about SBX signals staying up in space and coming back down again a year later. This newspaper article might have been dated April 1st.
This is what Don Taylor, who has called "On Sched" for the last 30 or more years and who has a lot of knowledge about different signals said.
"High Frequency signals often skip over great distances as our signals bounce back to earth off the ionosphere, so do not be too surprised. But they are almost instantaneous, so unless someone is playing with a recorder of some kind, it just has to be a hoax. Our signals are trapped around our earth, so to speak, and can not penetrate the ionoshpere into outer space."
This morning on the SBX Bryan said he was going to run the window etc down to the other line cabin. Said he might come back to base tomorrow. Vikki is going to try to make Donuts with Cream Filling today.
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I'm sure Bryan will be back for those donuts . Is -7 a high temp for this time of year Vikki ? :)
At the time when I had a cat and two dogs, the cat would often sit there and almost howl when we went for a walk. The cat was called Fatso and not without reason...
Can you get some heat into the green house Vikki? It might slide on it's own if you can.
PS: Actually, be careful if you can't get the greenhouse good and warm, as if it only partially heats, it will just ice the load down to the roof real good if it doesn't slide.
Well, your signals will certainly travel for a long distance but they wont come back...At very, very high freqs you can actually bounce signals off the moon but it is virtually instantaneous (your signals travel at the speed of light)
As for your antenna at the line cabin, if you can get it about 10-15 ft off of the ground you are fine. At that freq, the actual wavelength of your signal is about twice as long as the antenna I sent you... long--just imagine a sinewave...anyway, the optimum height for that antenna to get good 'local communication is different than what you want for 'distant communication' It would also help if you could get the ends of the antenna the same height--if you cant, don't worry. you will likely never notice the difference anyway. At about 10-12 feet high, you should have pretty good daytime communication within 300-400 miles. Remember, at night your range will extend past the area (friends you wish to call) and you could have better luck hearing someone in Seattle very well than you could someone 100 miles away.
Let me know how your other antennas are and if you need anything. Stay well...
scott
Have enjoyed reading your blog entries over the past few months. I am a amateur radio operator and very glad to see you remote northern types are still using HF.
Out of curiosity, what time does the sched on 4441KHz start these days? I would like to try listening to it...
Was the SBX radio signal thing a hoax?
Thats so unfortunate, I really enjoyed the tale. It got my imagination going.
Nathan
Brian... -7 is really mild weather here. It is usually -15 to -21 Cel but with dips down to - 27. The coldest here was 4 years ago in Feb and it was -46 Cel.
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