[Lowfer] XGR/3 Antenna

[Andy - KU4XR]

Hello John:

It will be nice to hear your signal back on the band, 73:

Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 184.322 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr


--- On Sun, 2/15/09, John Andrews <w1tag at charter.net> wrote:

> From: John Andrews <w1tag at charter.net>
> Subject: [Lowfer] XGR/3 Antenna
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>, "600MRG" <shmrg at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 5:00 PM
> After being off the air since an ice storm on December
> 11-12, it looks 
> like WE2XGR/3 is again among the living. The big loop is
> oddly shaped, 
> but it does take power. There's not much that can be
> done for the tangle 
> at the upper eastern end, though! After removing several
> large branches 
> from the western side over the last two months, at least
> that end is 
> roughly at normal height. It remains to be seen how stable
> the shape 
> will be, as there are a number of badly damaged trees
> involved in 
> holding it up.
> 
> I'm guessing that the performance at 500 kHz won't
> be much worse than 
> the original setup, so XGR/3 will be the focus for the
> limited evening 
> time I have available at this point. The insulation on the
> #4 THHN wire 
> is in tough shape, and there are lots of new and strange
> points of 
> contact to the trees, so unattended operation won't be
> a good idea.
> 
> WE2XGR/3 will be running MFSK16 on 508.500 kHz tonight from
> 0000 to 
> 0200, and then we'll see if USB still works on 510.
> 
> John Andrews, W1TAG
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