[Lowfer] Lowfer listening report from NE IL

[John Andrews]

  Garry,

Never underestimate the power of long, deep fades at this frequency. You 
can spend quite a bit of time looking for a signal that's headed down, 
as it may stay there for a while.

Anyway, it looks like you synched up with XES fairly quickly, and just 
had to wait until the SNR (-q) got near -3 dB, which is usually the 
magic value for WOLF signals.

Tnx!

John, W1TAG

Garry Hess wrote:
> John,
> 
> XES cane through fine last night around  0600Z. Guess the previous 
> evening I didn't look long enough or had some cockpit error.
> 
> 2009-04-05 05:47:24 >WOLF10  -r 10800.678 -f 400 -t 1.0 -w 0.0000 -ut
> 05:47:48 f:-0.303 a:-1.5 dp: 78.8 ci: 0 cj:  0 28V0UR251WTSA06 ?
> 05:48:12 f: 0.005 a:-0.5 dp: 77.1 ci: 0 cj:  0 5GZ**DPGVEW/TMV ?
> 05:49:00 f: 0.689 a:-1.5 dp: 74.0 ci: 6 cj:287 H.FP79DQZVBCONV -
> 05:50:36 f: 0.029 pm:7.087 jm:578 q:-13.7 -5.9 L.9WMSA*1WYHDQO -
> 05:52:12 f:-0.059 pm:10.49 jm:614 q: -6.8 -8.3 FMG80CGAWSYDV94 ?
> 05:53:48 f:-0.059 pm:15.23 jm:614 q: -5.1 -8.1 RBWL. SDUCA75MF ?
> 05:55:24 f:-0.059 pm:19.57 jm:614 q: -3.6 -7.8 56EMEL0HH4G7WWL ?
> 05:57:00 f:-0.059 pm:20.67 jm:614 q: -3.2 -5.6 XES LITTLE WOLF -
> 05:58:36 f:-0.059 pm:26.61 jm:614 q: -2.4 -4.0 XES LITTLE WOLF -
> ...
> 
> The above was copied using an analog IC-706MkIIG receiver. An RFSpace 
> SDR-IQ downconverter to SpectraVue 3 beta software then on to the Wolf 
> gui via a virtual audio cable was also tried. No decodes so must not 
> have the calibration right yet. The current SpectraVue 2.34 software 
> kicks itself offline repeatedly on my PC but Moe at MoeTronix has been 
> very responsive addressing my operational problems. The new beta code 
> seems to have solved them all. Unlike Winrad, SpectraVue does allow copy 
> of very slow, narrowband signals like QRSS-60. Prior to running WOLF 
> 137.780 kHz was monitored for WD2XGJ and copy was fine with the SDR-IQ.
> 
> Moving on to the watering hole, both MP and CV were copied, as was EAR 
> this morning despite storms going over top.
> 
> 73,
> Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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