[Lowfer] Interesting night on 500 kHz

[Mike.WE0H]

Cool story Garry. I forwarded it to the SHMRG 600m reflector. Maybe one 
of these evenings we can pack in more 600m stations and see if we can 
top what we did on 1750m years ago when we had ~11 signals on one 
Grabber screen.

Mike
WE0H
/16


Garry H wrote:
> NDB OF on 510 kHz in Norfolk, Nebraska had an unusual amount of company 
> last night. The neatest signal was from WE2XGR/2, who was sending a 
> waterfall image of Santa, his sleigh, and reindeer on 508 kHz. There was 
> also a HO, HO, HO, image from WD2XGR/3 on 507.3 kHz. The regular WSPR 
> transmissions of WD2XSH/37 were on 503.9 kHz. CW transmissions from 
> WD2XSH/16 on 506 kHz, WE2XGR/1 on 506.3 kHz, and WD2XSH/6 on 508.8 kHz 
> were seen along with PSK31 from WD2XSH/7 on 508.0 kHz. All in all, 7 
> experimental licensees could be seen on a 10 kHz span SDR-IQ display 
> centered on 505.8 kHz around 0300Z (12/26/09).
> 
> But wait, there's more. Tuning down the reliable beacon from Colorado, 
> WD2XSH/12, was in there on 495.5 kHz. as was chirpy WD2XSH/31 on 497 kHz.
> 
> Ended the night tuned to 186.85 kHz for lowfer SJ using QRSS30 ARGO for 
> maximum sensitivity. It came through with a couple of callsigns a bit 
> before local sunrise.
> 
> Don't know if anyone has been tuning for SIW but it got through an ice 
> storm here in fine shape and is still keying away on 185.185 kHz, QRSS30.
> 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL