[Lowfer] Beacon "R"

[Mark Ku7z]

Garry, I let Argo look for R last night as well and found on the 
captures this morning the carrier there off and on as well.  Got some 
weird signals off and on as well, suspect power line stuff maybe.

73, Mark, Ku7z
DN41af
Ogden, Northern UT (NUT)


Garry and Linda Hess wrote:
> I listened a bit last night for beacon "R", reported to be QRV on 169.90 
> QRSS-3. No lowfer signal was noted but a strong external carrier was 
> present almost exactly on that frequency. It faded away for a short 
> while once, but unless I can null it the prospects for copying such fast 
> CW at 455 miles aren't good. I assume the beacon is in or near grid 
> EM36rg, based on latitude/longitude values for the city of Cotter, 
> Arkansas. On the other hand, beacon WMS, on 187.492 kHz QRSS-60 and also 
> in Arkansas, came in fine last night even with static crashes from 
> storms to the south. And, WEB in Texas as usual was good copy on 189.95 
> kHz QRSS-30.
>
> By the way, who is "John"? That name isn't exactly unique so I don't 
> know for sure who Brian, KG8CO is referring to.
>
> 73,
> Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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