[Lowfer] TAG Sending plain old CW

[John Andrews]

Dex,

> Come on John....  I'm fairly sure I heard you working someone but I just
> couldn't copy their call.  I heard 559 several times.

No, you got it all wrong. That's how old you'll be when you finally copy me
in CW mode.

> What I was hearing turned out to be the modulation from the 177 KHz BC
> station.  With narrow filters voice seems to make random sounding code
> elements but certain musical sounds actually sound like morse
> characters. S H and 5 seems to show up often.

German music is like that. The "oompahs" can be decoded by WOLF.

> About midnight I was hearing a BC station around 143 KHz.  This is the
> first time I've heard one that low in the band.  I wonder if there is a
> BC station on this frequency or if what I was hearing was an image
> signal.  I haven't found a LW BC list that shows any station below 153
> KHz.  The normally strong stations at 162 and 183 were not coming in as
> strong as usual.

I've never heard one down that low, either. Will have to check that out.

John