Archive (SoftRock is from Feb. 9, 2009)
Beacon Reception at JN1SDD by SoftRock
Reception of the IARU/NCDXF International Beacon Project beacons.
Out of operation: The Beacon Monitor station is temporarily shut down due to instability of the PC which was running Faros software. I will restart the station when I purchase a brand new PC. Sorry for your inconvenience. (Oct. 29, 2009)
Location: Kanagawa pref., Japan. PM95rm
Latitude: 35 30', Longitude: -139 25'.
Receiver: SoftRock v9.0 Lite+USB Xtall with Electronically Switched v9.0 HF BPF. (You can find a small discussion in the Yahoo! Groups reflector.)
Antenna: 5 meters horizontal wire at 8 meters high. No antenna tuner, coupler or preamp. Maintains one meter distance from a ferroconcrete building (25 meters high). Please notice that the previous antenna has been altered with the current antenna at 5:10, Feb. 14, 2009 (UTC), permanently.
Sound Card: Creative USB Sound Blaster Digital Music SX (Using 48 kHz sampling rate)
System Diagram: System configuration diagram is here. Inside look of my SoftRock box is here (photo)
Other Beacon Monitoring web pages are linked from the International Beacon Project Monitors site.
