[Lowfer] DIR on the air

[Andy - KU4XR]

Jim:

I'll try to look for you tonight. I have to shut my beacon down
to receive. If I get anything; I'll send you a capture

73 :::


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29880 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr


--- On Thu, 10/8/09, Jim <w4jbm at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Jim <w4jbm at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [Lowfer] DIR on the air
> To: part15 at yahoogroups.com, "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 10:28 AM
> DIR is on the air. I'd say again,
> except that a last minute crisis left me 
> rushing for the airport and I forgot to shut it off earlier
> in the week. But 
> it has cranked away and survived some storms here.
> 
> Should be around 172.945 kHz (Andy found something about
> 1.5 Hz higher that 
> may well have been DIR, but I can't measure more accurately
> than +/- 1 or 2 
> Hz right now))
> 
> I'm working on getting it towards the watering hole. I've
> got a DSS VFO I can 
> use, but I'll have to divide it down because it only offers
> 1 kHz steps. I'm 
> planning to build a "divide-by-n" box to put in line that
> will let me divide 
> by anything between 2 and 15. Hope to get that breadboarded
> this weekend, but 
> I'm not sure I'll have the time.
> 
> 73 de
> Jim W4JBM
> 
> Receiver - Ten Tec RX320D
> Antenna - Butternut Vertical (SW) and mini-whip (LF)
> Location - Bowdon Junction, GA  USA (33.6581,-85.1249
> EM73)
> 
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> 
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