WB5FKC on 40m

October 3, 2008 | Amateur Radio | By: Mark VandeWettering

30m was crapping out after about 2:00AM UTC, and I had heard that Christian, WB5FKC was going to be sending QRSS Morse on 40m, just above 7.0008Mhz, so I tuned down and tried recording some. And, miracle of miracles, I got him:

If you read across (and know morse) you can see that it says (with a bit of interpolation) WB5FKC WB5F.. and then cuts out. He reports using a transmit power of only 50mw, and is almost exactly 1000 miles from my location. The recording covers the time from 10:08 to 10:44 or so PDT.

Addendum: I tweaked around with my FFT settings a bit, did a bit of noise reduction and the like, and managed to get this. If you click on it, you can see that there is a bit of chirp as each dot and dash ramp up in frequency over the four and twelve seconds that each takes, respectively.