[Lowfer] Lowfer reception in NE IL and W5JGV grabber

[Garry Hess]

Didn't see all the messages about the W5JGV grabber until this morning, 
but since I regularly check the 500 kHz grabber I knew it was tuned to 
the lowfer watering hole. Impressive to see MP at over 1000 miles 
appearing along with CV, XR, and the QSB.

WEB came in good as usual last night so I ran ARGO QRSS60 tuned to the 
watering hole with capture enabled and aimed at CV. Best I could do with 
the 10' loop was a dash around 0715Z. Haven't used the e-probe/SDR-IQ 
for lowfer reception at night before so gave it a try and immediately 
saw the "V" in CV along with MP. XR showed up too for a couple of 
sequences. Didn't get up until 1030Z and that was probably too late to 
catch WMS (tried, but didn't see anything).

Not sure the e-probe is really better than the loop (I didn't think so). 
Perhaps I just lucked out and caught a nice rise in propagation when I 
switched to the former. I've always had 60 Hz crud with the loop and it 
gets more severe as the frequency drops. Recently it has involved two 
randomly wandering signals rather than one like last year. Perhaps 
that's degrading QRSS reception with the loop more than last year.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL