[Lowfer] Logged my first LOWFER tonight!

[Les Rayburn]

At 12:20 AM 1/8/02 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>


Conrad,

Congratulations! Logging your first lovwfer signal is one of the biggest 
thrills the radio
hobby has to offer. It makes me especially glad since it appears that I let 
you down
with my unscheduled "outage".

Perhaps you can bag Lowfer #2 tonight, as XM returns to the air. I'll be 
out of town
on business for the next six or seven days so the beacon will run full 
time...with
no interruptions for MARS or receiver testing. So please try again tonight.

73,

Les



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