RIG: Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Long Wire End Fed
Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi
Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)
All time mentioned in Indian Standard Time(ist) and where possible in Coordinated Universal Time(utc) also & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)
> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale .
Date:21/05/25
7145kHz lsb
QRN Noise S2-S3
0800ist>VU2TKC(Kolkata) 57,VU3OII(North 24 Paragana) 55-56
Monitored ended around 0801ist
Date:22/05/25
WX:Cloudy,wet overnight heavy rain
7145kHz lsb
Noise Level:S1-S2
0758ist >VU3LGT(Asansol) 57,VU3DUK(Guwahati) poor,
S21HA(Ishwarde) (0759ist>) 55
VU2OWB (Khashpur) breaking call 55 &
from 0801ist> VU2OWB 54-55,VU3LGT 57,
VU3DUK not heard,S21HA 55
0803ist>S21HA 53,VU3LGT 55-57,VU2OWB 55 QSB,
0804ist>VU2ZOC(Kolkata) 59,VU3LGT 57 QSB,VU2OWB 55
Monitored upto 0807ist
7095kHz lsb
0807ist>VU3NYV(Shillong) 57,VU3DUK 53
0810ist>VU3NYV 59-57, VU3DUK very weak, difficult to copy
0812ist>VU3DUK 55-54, VU3NYV 58 slight QSB
Date:23/05/25
7145kHz lsb
from 0750ist onwards or on other time also I have heard this type of noise on 7145kHz here.Here is a recording of that noise around 0753ist on 7145kHz lsb..
The link:
On some frequencies on 40m amateur band this type of noise can be audible in the morning.
Date:24/05/25
WX:Partly cloudy,sunshine
On 7095kHz lsb perhaps
Noise Level:S1-S2
0747ist>VU3DUK?(Guwahati) 43 33 on CQ call heard once
7145kHz
0755ist>VU3SAQ (Kolkata) on CQ call from time to time 57-59
Noise Level slightly higher S2-S3
7095kHz lsb
Noise Level:S1
0757-0759ist>VU3DUK very weak,VU3NYV(Shillong) 55-57 with his sBITX 25W maximum with horizontal dipole,
7070kHz lsb
Noise Level:S1
0807-0811ist>VU3HZW(Guwahati) S9 over 10dB maximum with easy uBITX pumping between 35-40W with inverted V dipole, VU3NYV S9 over 5dB maximum,both perfect copy
7145kHz lsb
0812-0820ist
VU3SAQ 59, VU3LGT(Asansol) 55
There may errors here and there as I am preparing this reception logs from rough notes written while monitoring.
More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.
73
DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)