[Lowfer] Overnight LOWfer reception in SE TN

[Andy - KU4XR]

Hi Garry and all:

Well, last night I gave " W M S " a shot overnight. No catch there.
" W E B " and " W M S " are really tough ones for me for some reason.

I got an interesting surprise on Sat. early evening, between 6:30 pm
and 7:00 pm Eastern ( 10:30 UTC ). Using some recently aquired
tunable inductors, and vari - caps; I greatly increased my reception
level of WWVB. The highest I had ever saw it was an S-3. With the
tunable setup I brought it up to a peak of an S-9 at about 3:00 pm
in the afternoon. That's a pretty darn good increase. So I gave JJY
in Japan a try on 40Khz at 6:30 pm, using the Multi-PSK Clock and the
PLL locked almost right away, then after a few minutes I got a 
" Time Frame " lock. I got at least 2 Time Frame locks in that 1/2 hour
period, but the date and time just came up as " ??? " . After that,
I didn't get any more locks, and soon the PLL Lock dropped too.
That one, along with the 75Khz time station in Switzerland are going
to be a couple of my conquests this winter.

I really do need to set me up a soundcard receiver for VLF sometime !!



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, 6/29/09, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Overnight LOWfer reception in SE TN
> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 8:30 AM
> Andy, wonder how you fared in copying
> WEB? Thunderstorm QRN had been 
> quite bad for many days but last night things calmed down
> and WEB was in 
> pretty well at times to NE IL 0545-1030Z, 6/29/09.
> 
> Can't say the same for NDB reception. Those signals seem
> few and far 
> in-between compared to winter time and inconsistent. AY on
> 219 kHz was 
> good from Georgia over night but couldn't hear other
> beacons tried in 
> that direction.
> 
> VLF signals are doing well, with NWC, 19.8 kHz in Australia
> coming in 
> early morning despite the QRN. This morning there was
> activity on 17.9 
> kHz, presumably the US Navy TACAMO mobile source listed by
> 
> http://www.vlf.it/trond2/15-20khz.html.
> Sorry I didn't see the note on 
> SAQ transmissions in time to look for them.
> 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL