[Lowfer] First Summer of WA and VD
Mitch Powell
[email protected]
Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:36:18 -0400
>
> Thanks for the capture! I guess the Lowfer band isn't just for winter
> anymore.
>
> FYI, I had been watching my loop current slowly dropping the past few
> days. Last night it was down to 1.1 amps. Turns out I had a final
> transistor go "soft" and put a new one in about 11 pm - just in time for
> your midnight capture, as it turned out! Current went back up to 1.4
> amps. That extra 2 dB probably made the difference between last night
> and the "no show" on your capture the previous night.
Jay:
great timing - and you can see that the call sign was quite clean.
So 2 dB is worth the effort.
C U L
Mitch