{"id":29831,"date":"2017-12-27T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29831"},"modified":"2017-12-27T07:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:54:42","slug":"am-radio-ivan-compiles-2017-solar-eclipse-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/am-radio-ivan-compiles-2017-solar-eclipse-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"AM Radio: Ivan compiles 2017 solar eclipse logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Spectrum-Waterfall-SDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22683\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Spectrum-Waterfall-SDR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Spectrum-Waterfall-SDR.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Spectrum-Waterfall-SDR-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Spectrum-Waterfall-SDR-624x239.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I never got a chance to summarize my results of the AM scans I did <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/2017-solar-eclipse\/\">during the 2017 total eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I used an SDR and a 40 foot end-fed antenna located in a park near the Nashville, TN airport.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side I did notice a spike of AM signals and amateur radio signals especially on 40 meters. On the negative side, my AM scans were adversely affected by the nearby powerhouse WSM transmitter on 650 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attached my results in a spreadsheet [embedded] below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRZRmgphHxCw_4LlN38gVSAVjlXWmZEVdyQz95ol5mN2tsX1qxPU8xiWecPBFHNmGNzqz8ExzCVUfWW\/pubhtml?gid=197983205&amp;single=true&amp;widget=true&amp;headers=false\" width=\"650\" height=\"1050\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vRZRmgphHxCw_4LlN38gVSAVjlXWmZEVdyQz95ol5mN2tsX1qxPU8xiWecPBFHNmGNzqz8ExzCVUfWW\/pubhtml?gid=197983205&amp;single=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view this Google Docs spreadsheet in a new window.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fantastic, Ivan! Thank you for taking the time to go through your recordings and make these notes. No doubt, this log took a few hours to compile. I&#8217;ve yet to go through my eclipse spectrum recordings&#8211;!<\/p>\n<p>Again, thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/video-ivan-shares-a-bandscan-from-the-2017-eclipse-qso-party\/\">Click here to view Ivan&#8217;s previous post<\/a>\u00a0which includes a bandscan of the 2017 Eclipse QSO Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes: I never got a chance to summarize my results of the AM scans I did during the 2017 total eclipse. I used an SDR and a 40 foot end-fed antenna located in a park near the Nashville, TN airport. On the plus side I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43,158],"tags":[6343,6282,6478,5391,3711,3710,5185],"class_list":["post-29831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-software-defined-radio","tag-2017-solar-eclipse","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipse-propagation","tag-ivan-cholakov-no2cw","tag-sdrplay","tag-sdrplay-rsp","tag-sdruno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7L9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28094,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/video-ivan-shares-a-bandscan-from-the-2017-eclipse-qso-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":29831,"position":0},"title":"Video: Ivan shares a bandscan from the 2017 Eclipse QSO Party","author":"Thomas","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW) who shares the following: I finally got around to listening through some of the amateur radio band spectrum captures from the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO party. I used an SDRPlay receiver with an end fed LNR antenna in portable field setting in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SDRuno-Eclipse-QSO-Party-Ivan.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SDRuno-Eclipse-QSO-Party-Ivan.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SDRuno-Eclipse-QSO-Party-Ivan.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SDRuno-Eclipse-QSO-Party-Ivan.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27683,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/wnahs-solar-eclipse-propagation-test\/","url_meta":{"origin":29831,"position":1},"title":"WNAH&#8217;s solar eclipse propagation test","author":"Thomas","date":"August 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes: If you ever loved AM radio you will love this. Thank you WNAH for recognizing there's more to radio than plugging into a programming network and walking away! http:\/\/youtu.be\/ApOqz7RDZnY Click here to view on YouTube. Very cool! 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Antenna is the same, 80m OCF\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mediumwave&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mediumwave","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/mediumwave\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RSP1a-comparison-video-Ivan-C.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RSP1a-comparison-video-Ivan-C.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RSP1a-comparison-video-Ivan-C.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RSP1a-comparison-video-Ivan-C.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21947,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/aeronautical-sdr-ivans-in-flight-fm-spectrum-captures\/","url_meta":{"origin":29831,"position":3},"title":"Aeronautical SDR: Ivan&#8217;s in-flight FM spectrum captures","author":"Thomas","date":"October 28, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan Cholakov (NO2CW), who writes: Thomas, not sure if this is something relevant but airlines now state it is OK to use an am\/fm radio on board aircraft. Not much possibilities for AM unfortunately but on a recent flight from Ft Lauderdale to Dallas\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/fm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Aircraft-Jet-Boeing-VOLMET.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41020,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/ivan-tests-the-sdrplay-rspdxs-hdr-mode\/","url_meta":{"origin":29831,"position":4},"title":"Ivan tests the SDRplay RSPdx&#8217;s HDR mode","author":"Thomas","date":"December 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ivan (NO2CW), who writes: The new RSPdx has what they call \"High Dynamic Range: (HDR) mode below 2 mHz. 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