[Lowfer] LOWfer "XR" is back on the air

[Garry and Linda Hess]

Andy,

Your beacon came in well to NE IL over night (3/30/09). Traces on 
184.322 kHz were first noticed around 0530Z using ARGO QRSS-30 and by 
0830Z the copy was good. That continued through 0915Z when WMS was tried 
on 187.492 kHz, QRSS-60. It came in well too until 1100Z. WEB was 
checked a few minutes at a time WEB should have been sending QRSS-30 
signals, but CW is normally detectable here too yet neither showed on 
the ARGO waterfall. After sunrise at 1300Z both MP and EAR were copied 
at normal levels.

NDB signals seem sparse compared to a month or two ago, but SPP was 
copied reasonably well on 387 kHz LSB from San Andres, Columbia (2073 
mile path) so DX possibilities persist.

73,
Garry
K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL