[Lowfer] WEB And CV Lunch Time Captures

[Andy - KU4XR]

Hey Jerry:

WOW !!! Those captures are fascinating, and your setup is a performer.
You've made a lot of OPs happy this year with your captures, keep on
tryin, and havin fun;  Merry Christmas & 73 to all yours:

Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 184.322 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr


--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Jerry Sharp <gerfmon at mesanetworks.net> wrote:

> From: Jerry Sharp <gerfmon at mesanetworks.net>
> Subject: [Lowfer] WEB And CV Lunch Time Captures
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &  UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 4:19 PM
> Daytime conditions seem pretty good today, just finished
> doing captures of both WEB in Stafford, TX and CV in South
> Coffeyville, OK. I caught CV first, starting around noon MST
> (1900 UTC). I've copied CV midday before, in fact
> I've seen at least traces of his signal every day for
> the last week. Today was my best copy, though. You'll
> notice that about a third of the way through the copy I
> decided to change to "normal" speed, then decided
> that was blurring the print a bit too much for my taste and
> went back to "slow".
> 
> http://www.underwesternskies.net/lowfers/CV_Noon_12_19_2008_1900UTC.jpg
> 
> 
> Starting about 12:45 PM MST (1945 UTC) I went to look for
> WEB, and found it. Unfortunately after one weak copy of his
> ID someone in the neighborhood turned something on and my
> Argo screen filled with noise:
> 
> 
> http://www.underwesternskies.net/lowfers/WEB_MIDDAY_12-18-2008_1945UTC.jpg
> 
> CV is approx. 558 miles away.
> WEB is approx. 906 miles away and is now my longest daytime
> lowfer DX.
> 
> On another note, whatever Andy did to his XR antenna last
> night, it seemed to help. I let Argo run all night and
> caught bits and pieces of his ID though out the night, but
> never enough for a full ID. If the good conditions hold and
> you dry out a little more, maybe tonight Andy!
> 
> 73, Jerry Sharp, KD0GS
> Longmont, CO DN70ke
> 
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