[Lowfer] Argo Working

[Peter Barick]

LowFERs,
Re: ARGO Progress--It Works

Want to thank Lyle and Mitch for the helpful guidance provided for
getting my Agro setup running right. I'm having fun--and feeling tired
mornings having stayed up too long playing and watching Argo slowly
scroll across in anticipation of that next glob of light. I find it
interesting that on the first night it was "LEK" that most bedazzled me
on the screen--upside down no less. It's righted now.

I looked for CO and YK last night but nothing, although I did spot NC
amongst a few others. Seems reading the screen calls for more
interpretive power than, say just "copying code." (This type of copying
is somewhat anathema for traditional code. There I've learned never to
say the dreaded D words, instead to merely copy "sound," first the char,
then words. It's a forrest-trees kind of thing.) To confuse things part
of a char or whole char could drop out, or noise could impose itself and
"alter" or join chars. And to that end, some signals seem to cause the
char bits to run together or "smear." Is there a way around that? I'm
using the AGC and 30 seconds and notice the gain box bounces in the
60-70% region. Would lowering that cause the chars to be more readable?
I have a 600:600 ohm isolation x-fmr in the line into the pc. Plan to
place a 10k var on the pc side to adj the sig in attempts to have some
control, as per Mitch.

Yesterday I left work early as the temps were in 50s. Been wanting to
better mount the 10-foot loop that was hung from a tree. Had everything
fabricated but was caught up in late fall garage roof replacement.
Finished that with the first day of snow. He he. Allowed another week
for cleanup and all was snowed in. No more: Yesterday I dug a 3-foot
hole for the 4X4 and installed the loop. Easier to turn and keep in
place now. Odd, though, I found no ground frost in what was my yard lawn
:-) which now supports two loops, a LF flat top and a HF dipole for the
birds' delight. But I'm not done. Being the outdoors type :-) I've been
eyeing the surrounding tall timber that would allow for a N-S tree loop.
One of these snows we're sure to see, the neighbors will find me with
casting rod or bow-in-hand acting like a nut casting/shooting to the
sky. Ah, Go Bold, huh? 


Cheers. Peter, EN51