WWV 5 Mhz reception in Port Huron, Michigan, USA on 1/October/2019

<p>Festival of Frequency Measurement 1 October 2019</p> <p>Event:&nbsp; WWV Centennial</p> <p>UTC date:&nbsp; 2019/October/01</p> <p>Beacon frequency: 5 MHz</p> <p>Michael Naruta - AA8K</p> <p>Location:&nbsp; 42.9960515N 82.4643026W 156.417m, grid EN82sx, near Port Huron, Michigan, USA, Zip code 48060.</p> <p>Start time:&nbsp; 15 minutes before 1/October/2019 UTC</p> <p>End time:&nbsp; 2 hours after 1/October/2019 UTC</p> <p>Antenna:&nbsp; BiggIR vertical, 10 meters high, with 33 ground radials, each 10 meters long.&nbsp; Omni-directional.</p> <p>Receiver:&nbsp; OpenHPSDR Mercury with Alexis bandpass filter.&nbsp;</p> <p>Software:&nbsp; PowerSDR OpenHPSDR mRX PS v3.38 (6/9/16), Virtual Audio Cable 4.13.0.5811, Fldigi 4.1.08, MS Windows 10 Home 1809.</p> <p>Frequency reference:&nbsp; Trimble Thunderbolt GPSDO.&nbsp; Mercury locked to reference.&nbsp; Personal computer sound card not locked to reference and may have a higher error.&nbsp; Devices located in a basement that does not experience wide temperature swings.</p> <p>Measurement procedure:&nbsp; PowerSDR set for USB with a frequency of 4.999 MHz.&nbsp; Bandwidth filters set to 950 Hertz and 1050 Hertz, yielding a 100 Hertz bandwidth centered on the 1,000 tone generated by the WWV 5 MHz carrier.&nbsp; Some difficult initially configuring VAC and Fldigi.&nbsp; Normally use Spectrum Lab.&nbsp; Fldigi ran in &#39;frequency analysis&#39; with data collected into a .csv file.</p>