Another great DXpedition to our Atlantic Ocean Seefontein site. Great
logs and great cameradie.
Some nice tropical band catches as well. see:
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/seefontein_2011_03.

I was bitterly disappointed with my Perseus SDR - feel like throwing
it in the trash can.

John Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-7600, Perseus SDR
ERGO software
Drake SW8. Sangean 803A, Redsun RP2100
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Grundig G8, Eton E100
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop.
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

Glad you had a nice time John.

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Another great DXpedition to our Atlantic Ocean Seefontein site. Great
logs and great cameradie.
Some nice tropical band catches as well. see:
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/seefontein_2011_03.

I was bitterly disappointed with my Perseus SDR - feel like throwing
it in the trash can.

John Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s
Icom IC-7600, Perseus SDR
ERGO software
Drake SW8. Sangean 803A, Redsun RP2100
Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Grundig G8, Eton E100
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop.
http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx

John Plimmer wrote:
Another great DXpedition to our Atlantic Ocean Seefontein site. Great
logs and great cameradie.
Some nice tropical band catches as well. see:
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/seefontein_2011_03.

I was bitterly disappointed with my Perseus SDR - feel like throwing
it in the trash can.

John Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa


Correct link:

http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/seefontein_2011_03.dx

On Apr 11, 6:39*pm, wrote:
Is it just a substantial loss of sensitivity /gain? Is the audio
distorted/garbled ? *There is a new 'de-bugged' software V3.0 beta1 .
Maybe that's all it needs .

No, it is just less sensative and more noisy than the superb Icom. It
doesn't seem to be malfunctioning, just not up to the Icom IC-7600
standard.
After I had trouble on the second DXpedition I upgraded to software
ver 3.0beta1 and that improved matters but it is still not up to the
Icom or my pal Vince's Drake R8A.

For instance he heard a clear ID on a US station at 0500z on 1480 kHz
but all that was on Perseus was an unreadable het.

JP

On Apr 11, 3:45*pm, John Plimmer wrote:
On Apr 11, 6:39*pm, wrote:

Is it just a substantial loss of sensitivity /gain? Is the audio
distorted/garbled ? *There is a new 'de-bugged' software V3.0 beta1 .
Maybe that's all it needs .

No, it is just less sensative and more noisy than the superb Icom. It
doesn't seem to be malfunctioning, just not up to the Icom IC-7600
standard.
After I had trouble on the second DXpedition I upgraded to software
ver 3.0beta1 and that improved matters but it is still not up to the
Icom or my pal Vince's Drake R8A.

For instance he heard a clear ID on a US station at 0500z on 1480 kHz
but all that was on Perseus was an unreadable het.

JP

I see . A good RF generator is what is needed here . That may clear
things up a little .

On 04/11/2011 07:36 PM, wrote:

JP

I see . A good RF generator is what is needed here . That may clear
things up a little .

An Altoids tin full of coaxial attenuators (aka "Pads") comes in real
handy when using cheap radios with big antennas.

http://www.minicircuits.com/products...oax_fixed.html

On Apr 11, 5:34*am, John Plimmer wrote:


Another great DXpedition to our Atlantic Ocean Seefontein site. Great logs and great cameradie.


[...]


Nice! Just curious, what's your farthest trans-Atlantic USA and Canada
catches? Have you ever heard any trans-Pacific DX from the mainland
USA or Canada? I assume that Hawaii is somewhat possible via trans-
Pacific (?).

On Apr 11, 5:34 am, John Plimmer wrote:

Another great DXpedition to our Atlantic Ocean Seefontein site. Great logs and great cameradie.

[...]

Nice! Just curious, what's your farthest trans-Atlantic USA and Canada
MW
catches? Have you ever heard any trans-Pacific MW DX from the
mainland
USA or Canada? I assume that Hawaii is somewhat possible via trans-
Pacific (?).

On Apr 12, 10:57*pm, DEFCON 88 wrote:
Nice! Just curious, what's your farthest trans-Atlantic USA and Canada
MW
catches? Have you ever heard any trans-Pacific MW DX from the
mainland
USA or Canada? I assume that Hawaii is somewhat possible via trans-
Pacific (?).

The farthet from the Seefontein West Cost Atlantic DX site was 1410
CFUN Vancouver BC Canada 10,000 miles away
1700 XEPE "San Diego 1700" is the farthest in the USA.

From our Indian Ocean East Coast DX site at Jongensgat we hve logged
and QSL'd Japan, Philippines and Guam.

JP

On Apr 12, 5:20*pm, John Plimmer wrote:
On Apr 12, 10:57*pm, DEFCON 88 wrote:

Nice! Just curious, what's your farthest trans-Atlantic USA and Canada
MW
catches? Have you ever heard any trans-Pacific MW DX from the
mainland
USA or Canada? I assume that Hawaii is somewhat possible via trans-
Pacific (?).

The farthet from the Seefontein West Cost Atlantic DX site was 1410
CFUN Vancouver BC Canada 10,000 miles away
1700 XEPE "San Diego 1700" is the farthest in the USA.

From our Indian Ocean East Coast DX site at Jongensgat we hve logged
and QSL'd Japan, Philippines and Guam.

JP

JP -technically- the Transmitter and Antenna for
XEPE-AM 1700 kHz is in Tecate, BC, Mexico
with cross-border English Programming to the
San Diego, CA USA radio market. ~ RHF