CLE215 - FINAL DETAILS
Posted by: "Brian Keyte" 9sm(at)waitrose.com g3sia
Date: Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:29 am ((PST))
Hello all
Our 'Special' 215th Coordinated Listening Event starts this Friday at
midday by your local time.
You are invited to listen for EVERYONE's ONE NEAREST ACTIVE NDB,
including your own.
Days: Friday 27 January to Monday 30 January
Times: Start and End at midday, your LOCAL TIME
Target: Each of our 'Nearest NDBs' (see below)
Range: 190 - 1740 kHz
If you hope to join in this CLE, you MUST, by 23:59 UTC this Wednesday,
please tell me your NEAREST ACTIVE NDB and its approximate DISTANCE
from you ( email to ndbcle(at)gmail.com - please NOT to NDB List ).
I am acknowledging those emails individually as they arrive.
We already have 47 nearest NDBs 'claimed' by 48 listeners - bravo!
At about 00:01 UTC on Thursday I'll send, via NDB List, a 'CLE TARGETS'
email with all the NDB targets for us to search for - their IDENT,
frequency and Location and which of us 'owns' them.
Sorry - IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO ADD OTHER LISTENERS AFTER THAT.
(If you are not sure which active NDB is your nearest, go to:
www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rww/signal_list In the 'Distance' line enter your Locator in 'From GSQ', then in 'DX'
enter 0 - 100 (or more). Finally Show 'All Results' at the top left.
Clicking on the 'km' or 'miles' heading would then sort by distance.
Or you could use Alex's WWSU or Michael's NDB databases, etc.)
Please post your log to the List with CLE215 in the Subject heading
(use Plain Text if you can and don't use an attachment) to arrive by
09:00 UTC on Wednesday 1st February at the very latest.
If you send interim logs, please also send a 'Final' (complete) log.
As usual, please include in every line of your log:
# Date (e.g. 2017-01-27, just 27, etc.)
# UTC (The day changes at 00:00 UTC)
# kHz
# Call Ident.
Those main log items must be shown FIRST (they can be in any
order within themselves) with the country shown LATER in the
same line, together with any other (optional) details such as
location, offset, cycle time and distance.
(No need to show who 'claimed' that NDB as their nearest).
As always, any non-CLE loggings should be shown separately.
I'll send an ANY MORE LOGS? email at about 18:00 UTC on Tuesday
showing whose logs I have found. Try to post your log to the List
before that so you will get confirmation that it has arrived OK.
If you have any queries they are probably answered in the
'small print' below!
Good listening
Brian
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From: Brian Keyte G3SIA ndbcle'at'gmail.com
Location: Surrey, SE England (CLE coordinator)
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'SMALL PRINT' (- that's not easy in a Plain Text email!)
Q. Can I send a CLE log without 'registering' my nearest NDB?
A. Sorry - no. We must know your nearest NDB details before
the list of all the target NDBs is sent.
Q. I do hope to take part, but what happens if I can't make it?
A. It won't matter - please send me your details and we can
listen for your nearest anyway.
Q. What if two or more listeners 'claim' the same nearest NDB?
A. No problem - the results will allow listeners to 'share' it.
Q. No UNIDs, NAVTEX, DGPS, Amateur .. . ?
A. That's right - only your one, nearest, active NDB.
Q. I sometimes listen from an alternative QTH. Is that OK?
A. Yes - but only tell me the NDB nearest to your NORMAL QTH
and please make only ONE CLE log (listening from ONE QTH
ONLY - which could be a remote receiver).
Q. Is trans-ocean reception of another listener's nearest NDB OK?
A. Certainly. Go for it !!!
Q. My QTH is remote from NDBs and/or from other listeners.
Few will hear my nearest and I'd hear few of theirs.
A. You could listen using the popular WebSDR receiver in Holland,
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ (or another remote receiver)
You would then hear Europe listeners' nearest ones, of course,
and all would still try to hear your own nearest.
Q. Has the poorly CLE 'harvester' been mended?
A. Not fully yet, but Joachim guided me in restoring QBasic running
under Windows 10 and we hope to succeed soon with Access too.
Q. Will the harvester's combined results be delayed?
A. Shouldn't be! This special CLE was chosen so we can use the
parts that have already been mended and can manage without
the parts that haven't!