[Lowfer] 600-Meters Stations Heard In "W7"-Land

Mike WE0H we0h at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 22 01:18:34 EDT 2008


Hey Clint,

Do you listen every night or? I had the rig on then seen the noise floor 
was higher so turned it off and worked on some other projects. Do you 
still run the CT beacon? I believe that was on 1750 meters.

Mike
WE0H
WD2XSH/16


Clint Turner wrote:
> This evening,  XSH/12 was heard in plain CW in DN40ao during 
> beaconing:  Copy wasn't super great - a bit of competition with static 
> crashes - but it was copyable.  (A recording is available)
>
> Signals seemed to peak around 0400, dropping mostly into the noise 
> (detectable, but not readily copyable) by 0430.
>
> Noted frequency was approximately 505.396 kHz.
>
> No other 500 meter stations detected at this time.
>
> RX:  Yaesu FT-757GX2 with LF Engineering LF-400B E-field whip (6 feet 
> above my grounded metal roof) and homebrew synchronous noise blanker.
>
> 73
>
> Clint
> KA7OEI/"CT"


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