[Lowfer] Great seeing MW on 185.3 again

[Paul Daulton]

The other WM is higher, I set WMS just above it. 

I always thought WM stood for western Mass. 

Antennas follow Newtons law, what goes up will come down. 

73 Paul k5wms

Quoting Bill Ashlock <ashlockw at hotmail.com>:
>
> Dick,
>
> Yes it's Wm, as I call it (IE: An abbreviation of William.....lower case "W"
> followed by an upper case "m"). If I don't properly reset that 
> exciter it comes
> out in the reverse or Mw and a short power interruption sometimes 
> reverses it. I
> plan to rewire one of the two digital counters in the circuit so that it gets
> reset after every full character word but ..... so far I haven't had 
> the time to
> do this. 
>
> I'm headed out in a minute to attack the Andover Loop. I had to 
> re-install this
> one last week because the #10 wire wore through where it passed over 
> a limb and
> broke after less than a year. Can't remember if its Xmtr is higher or 
> lower in
> freq than Wm. Hope it doesn't klober my under-line friend SIW :)
>
> Bill
>
> > From: wa3usg at verizon.net
> > To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 08:41:35 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Great seeing MW on 185.3 again
> >
> > Bill,
> >     It's WM I think. However, you could read it the other way I guess. I'll
> > put in a link to a capture. Looks like you are right above "SIW" who I
> > believe is on 185.2993. I never really had all of my stuff calibrated to a
> > greater then 1 Hz accuracy. 
> >
> > 	http://mysite.verizon.net/wa3usg/WM.jpg
> >
> > 73
> > Dick, WA3USG
> > Mechanicsburg, PA. 
> > FN10LE
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Bill Ashlock
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:45 PM
> > To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Great seeing MW on 185.3 again
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the report Dick. I have been struggling all day to get that
> > Ellsworth setup back on the air and your report is the first 
> indication that
> > everything is working. (BTW, is that MW or WM?) Found all kinds of problems
> > like multiple breaks in the power cable running out to the final 
> and a blown
> > fuse in the exciter in the shack.... but the loop and the final were OK
> > after 6 months of inactivity. Can you or anyone else give me a readout of
> > the exact frequency?
> >
> > I'm back in Andover right now and tomorrow I should be able to get the
> > competing Andover WM beacon back on the air, as well. So stay tuned. 
> >
> > Thanks again... 
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > > From: wa3usg at verizon.net
> > > To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> > > Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:01:06 -0500
> > > Subject: [Lowfer] Great seeing MW on 185.3 again
> > >
> > >
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Paul Daulton K5WMS
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