[Lowfer] W3EEE grabber down

Steve Dove dsp at hifidelity.com
Thu Feb 12 15:12:06 EST 2009


Hi Garry,

High winds.  Brought down two trees.  Playing lumberjack he-man.
Chainsaw plus old hippy.  Bad combination.

73

Steve


Garry and Linda Hess wrote:
> Last night around 0900Z, 2/12/09 the W3EEE grabber went "deaf". Prior to 
> that it had been doing a good job displaying ARGO QRSS-30 signals from 
> MP and WM. The web page works, but received signals are absent, for 
> whatever reason. The good WM displays raised hopes I would see it too 
> but that didn't happen. MP was in there, along with traces of CV, but no 
> WM was apparent. Beacon WEB was coming in well and NDB HBT on 390 kHz  
> from well out the Aleutian Island chain in Alaska (3257 miles) was fair 
> copy at 0830Z. Signals from the east should not have been bad either 
> because NDB POR on 327 kHz nearly 4000 miles away in Portugal was copied 
> around 0430Z. However, TAG decoding attempted after 1000Z was not 
> successful so not seeing WM was probably to be expected. Perhaps 
> tonight  propagation will be better.
> 
> 73,
> Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
>  
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