Tuesday, July 29, 2014

A Day In the Life of HM01

Following yesterday's blog entry, all but one of HM01's known time slots have been checked live or by timer.  Here is the result.

7/28 2100  n/h any freq
7/28 2200  10715  S5, weak, cut, resumed
7/28 2300  n/h any freq
7/29 0500  14375  S8, readable with deep fading, 28629 07712 57251 34031 55525 14421
7/29 0600  14375  S7 carrier, extremely low audio, uncopyable
7/29 0700  13435  Weak, readable with deep fades, 28629 07712 57251 34031 55525 14421
7/29 0800  11635  Weak, fading, 28629 07712 57251 34031 55525 14421
7/29 0900  12120  n/h
7/29 1000  8642    n/h
7/29 1600  n/h any freq
7/29 1700  n/h any freq
7/29 1800  n/h any freq
7/29 2100  ---missed---
7/29 2200  17480  S8, readable, fading, 83121 07713 57251 34031 55526 14421
7/29 2300  n/h any freq

While HM01 is consistently weaker here in Southern California, all but 10715 at 2200 were only by 1-2 S units.

Notice how some callup 5F groups may increment by one, while others don't. This is typical, and the increment might mean there's a new message. Also, notice the 28629 group, which is also typical. When the last figure gets to nine, it will either stay there or a new group will appear. We saw this on the 29th, in the 2200 slot.