[Lowfer] Sixpack captured in Colorado; CO transmotting tonight 187.593

[Lyle Koehler]

Hi Doug,

Good captures of the sixpack! You might have had seven, if your frequency
scale had slid down enough to catch IP. He is supposedly at 185.296,
although last night had drifted up almost 0.5 Hz above that frequency.

Have you sent your frequency correction to the LWCA as well as posting it to
the reflector? Usually the changes appear fairly quickly, although I'm sure
that things sometimes fall into a crack and you may have to re-submit.

If you want to try sending QRSS3 tonight, I'll park the receiver on your
frequency and see what happens. At that speed, I should be able to leave my
beacon running and see complete IDs from you during the silent periods. It
might be a little tough to complete a QSO at QRSS3, but if your signal looks
intelligible we can certainly give it a try. As you know, two-way contacts
are a lot tougher than copying a beacon, and QRSS is a lot harder to copy
when you don't know what it is going to say! I can also put out some regular
CW at any time. So far the most distant reception of LEK in CW mode was by
Bill Bowers in Oklahoma (750 miles), and that was after years of trying. But
I had numerous 2-way contacts on CW with XJ in Ohio at almost that distance.
XJ's receiving location in a very rural area with a long Beverage antenna
pointed in my direction helped a lot, though!  By the way, if you are very
patient, LEK sends a CW identifier at 12 WPM at the beginning of each
MT-Hell ID cycle. However, I expect you'll need more than that to pick me
out of the noise. WE also sends CW during part of the ID cycle, and his
message consists of more than just the beacon identifier.

73

Lyle