Peter  GM4DTH received SAQ in Sweden on 17.2kHz on Alexanderson Day 2023 using a special antenna and receiver in his garden. 

“Yesterday I received the SAQ transmission from Sweden on 17.2 kHz at 13:00BST. There was a high level of summer static which somewhat degraded the strong signal. I used, as before, an active aerial elevated to 20 feet. It was fed DC from a bias tee. The 17.2 Khz signal was mixed with 4 MHz in a converter and the fed to the IC-705. I have some photos and a recording. I have Photoshopped the screen image to remove the 4 MHz component for clarity”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audio Recording:

{mp3}20230702SAQDTH{/mp3}

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Transcript of text: Peter writes:

It took some time to transcribe as the Morse was corrupted by the strong static so the usual reading words before writing them did not work. I suspect that ‘BEGMT’ should be ‘BEGIN’ but checking the recording confirms the former. Also I would suspect QSD should be QSL although QSD does described the signal received.
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> CQ CQ CQ CQ de SAQ SAQ SAQ SAQ = THIS IS GRIMETON RADIO STATION/SAQ IN A TRANSMISSION USING THE ALEXANDERSON 200KW ALTERNATOR FROM 1924 ON 17.2KHZ. – IN THE SUMMER OF 2023, THE MACHINE PARTS FOR THE TWO ALEXANDERSON ALTERNATORS ARRIVED TO GRIMETON FROM THE USA. A SPECIAL TEAM FROM GENERAL ELECTRIC ARRIVED AND ASSEMBLY COULD BEGMT. AT THE SAME TIME THE POWER LINE TO GRIMETON WAS COMPLETED AND CONNECTED TO THE TRANSFORMER BUILDING. STAFF HOUSING BEGINS TO BE BUILT AND THE SITE IS EXPANDING AT A RAPID PACE. = SIGNED: WORLD HERITAGE GRIMETON RADIO STATION AND THE ALEXANDER GRIMETON FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION. = FOR QSD INFO PLEASE READ OUR WEBSITE: WWW.ALEXANDER.SE. de SAQ SAQ SAQ va

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