Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Milcom Blog Logs 26 Nov 2014 - Btown NC

Decided to head down low (frequency wise) this morning and see which US Coast Guard DGPS stations I could rustle up for the breakfast hour here on the radio ranch.

Eastern US DGPS Coverage Map (courtesy US Coast Guard)

Here is a list of those station I monitored until the sun came up to tamper down those LF signals.

Freq
(kHz) DGPS Stn Location    TX ID        Mode/Baud Rate  Date   Time/UTC

289 Station 203 Topeka KS TX ID 765 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 11:17
293 Station 029 English Turn LA TX ID 814 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 11:53
294 Station 197 New Bern NC TX ID 771 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:23
295 Station 025 Eglin AFB FL TX ID 812 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:25
297 Station 137 Bobo MS TX ID 792 MFSK/200 bps  11/25/2014 16:25
299 Station 163 Dallisaw OK TX ID 866 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 11:29
301 Station 049 Macon GA TX ID 822 MFSK/200 bps  11/25/2014 16:21
301 Station 247 Angleton TX TX ID 828 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:58
303 Station 047 Greensboro NC TX ID 824 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:32
304 Station 219 Mequon WI TX ID 777 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 12:03
305 Station 190 Dandridge TN TX ID 782 MFSK/100 bps  11/25/2014 16:01
306 Station 051 Hackleburg AL TX ID 825 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 12:05
309 Station 850 Clark SD TX ID 850 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 12:07
310 Station 309 (CCG) Cardinal ON TX ID 919 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 12:10
317 Station 145 Hartsville TN TX ID 858 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:38
318 Station 053 Summerfield TX TX ID 823 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:39
319 Station 037 Savannah GA TX ID 818 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:41
320 Station 161 Millers Ferry AL TX ID 865 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 11:43
321 Station 154 St. Louis MO TX ID 862 MFSK/200 bps  11/26/2014 11:45
325 kHz Station 177 Medora ND TX ID 851 MFSK/100 bps  11/26/2014 11:46

(Receiver Icom IC-7200, 80m G5RV antenna, Multipsk decoder, dates and times are UTC)

These were interesting stations to decode and Multipsk made it a snap. You can get your copy of Multipsk at http://f6cte.free.fr/index_anglais.htm. Th program is free but there are some "professional" modes that will only decode for five minutes at a time unless you register. It is well worth the registration to have those mods which includes the decoding of DGPS signals.

Will try these again at several different hours to see what new ones I can log.