[Lowfer] Catching up

[Rye Gewalt]

John:

I am seeing the same line here in the DC area and thought it was something
local -- but very stable. I chased around the house and determined it wasn't of
'local' origin.  I kind of thought it might be a computer in the neighborhood,
but your observation leads me to believe that it might be something else more
distant -- or a coincidence. It's about 20db out of the noise in this area
(Washington DC) and I think I hear it during the day too.

Anybody got any idea what it might be? I suspect that some of the old time
LFers might know more about it.

I am relieved to know that RAL is slightly lower and will now retry hearing him
as I had given up due to the line.

This is my second year of tinkering with LF and I am finally hearing some
signals.  LEK, BRO, NC last night.  Last year I only heard one signal and that
was the fellow up in Colts Neck NJ sending regular Morse, but that was during
an area-wide power outage when I had the presence of mind to operate the
receiver on batteries.  I wish they'd turn off the power grid more often.

Rye K9LCJ
Springfield VA (DC Suburb)



John Andrews wrote:

> With the list having been down for a few days, I thought I would bring a
> couple of things up to date:
>
> I was able to copy RAL on Saturday morning, around 6:00 AM EST. A screen
> shot may be seen at:
> http://webpages.charter.net/w1tag/RAL.jpg
> This was a close thing, as Paul was just below a fairly strong line on my
> screen.
>
> The EU activity around 135.922 has been busy each evening. The best time
> here in MA has been around 2230 to 0000 UTC. If you set an ARGO 60 sec/dot
> screen to display 135.921 - 135.924 kHz, you shouldn't miss much.
>
> Tried copying BZS on 187.302 last night, with no luck. He's running QRSS60,
> now.
>
> John Andrews, W1TAG
>
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