[Lowfer] Logged my first LOWFER tonight!

[Conard, WS4S]

I'm really happy to report reception of JLD on 184.512. I was really fishing
for XMGR, but noticed one of the carriers I thought was QRM abruptly
switched off and then switched back on again in a minute. I tuned the
receiver down to what I thought was QRM and an hour later I had JLD on my
Spectrum Lab waterfall. This is the first LOWFER I have ever heard. I tried
the LOWFER game when I first got my ham ticket as a young squirt in 1978/79,
but I didn't have a clue what I was doing and nobody over a mile away could
hear me and I certainly didn't hear anyone else, so I made myself content
chasing after NDB's and ships on 600M.
Anyway, I was using a Ten Tec RX340, a 50 foot vertical (my SHMRG 600m TX
ant with the loading coil removed for now) and Spectrum Lab software. JLD's
signal peaked up quite loud and would have made for easy copy at usual CW
speeds, but the signal faded down and the software did it's job quite well
by printing signals I couldn't even hear.
73 de Conard, WS4S
Cookeville, TN


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