[Lowfer] Lowfer beacon report from NE IL

[Garry Hess]

Listened first last night for WD2XES as John indicated he would continue 
beaconing a bit longer. The lightning maps were very clean but quite a 
few static crashes were present nonetheless. Copied the Wolf 
transmission on the second decoding interval:

> 2009-04-08 04:16:02 >WOLF10  -r 10800.678 -f 400 -t 1.0 -w 0.0000 -ut
...
> 04:32:02 f:-0.068 pm:37.68 jm:728 q: -4.1 -9.3 SW71KMFN6L3EPR9 ?
> 04:33:38 f:-0.068 pm:42.42 jm:728 q: -3.6 -5.6 XES LITTLE WOLF -
> 04:35:14 f:-0.068 pm:46.52 jm:728 q: -3.5 -5.5 XES LITTLE WOLF -

Moved on for a quick sweep of the beacons generally heard here. MP, EAR, 
COV and WMS were in there decently after 0500Z but WEB and XR were not 
seen.

Finished the morning looking for TAG on Wolf but although the proper 
frequency was converged to no decodes occurred. Based on the strength of 
  higher-powered WD2XES that wasn't surprising, but since DCF39 on 138 
kHz had been coming in well from Europe it was worth a try.

Thanks again to all the beacon operators for keeping their transmitters 
on the air.

73,
Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL