[Lowfer] Lowfer beacon report from NE Illinois

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Hi, Andy.  You don't need SSB to generate Jason.  Google "ZL1BPU DDS exciter". 

73, Eric KD5UWL / WD2XFX
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com>

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:54:03 
To: Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European,& UK\) and MedFer bands<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Lowfer beacon report from NE Illinois


Hey Garry:

I appreciate your report agn. I am currently burning up the
brain cells working on a simple design to generate USB to be
able to beacon in JASON mode next season. 73 and enjoy the
condx. while it lasts.

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 Mon, 2/23/09, Garry and Linda Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Garry and Linda Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [Lowfer] Lowfer beacon report from NE Illinois
> To: "lowfer mailing list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 10:53 AM
> Based on last night's listening I can confirm beacons
> WEB, WMS, XR, EAR, 
> MP, CV, and TAG are working fine. WM was not noted here but
> it's coming 
> through decently on the W3EEE grabber. Not heard were 3OHH
> and SJ 
> (perhaps because of the scheduled 0600Z shut down).
> 
> Note to Jay, W1VD, I've failed to see WEB several times
> and then all of 
> a sudden it appears. Last night it was fine during the
> brief period I 
> looked for it, but it might have a keying issue other
> times.
> 
> I get the impression from the dropoff in NDB reports at 
> http://dxworld.com/ndblog.html that the good LF propagation
> period is 
> nearing end-of-life so it was nice to see so many beacons
> still putting 
> in good signals. QRSS-30 or higher operation certainly
> helps.
> 
> 73,
> Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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