[Lowfer] Saturday Morning Water Hole

[craig wasson]

Thanks for the freq check.  I'll leave IO where it is for now at 185,297.7
for a while.  I seem to be out of everyone's way there.  Now that I have
evidence it's getting past my back yard I'll work on improving it as I can.
Can't do much until the snow goes down to a wadeable depth except maybe
stretch a few ground radials over the snow.  Probably need to fix the top
hat so it's not going through pine trees too.   My vertical really is a
worst-case example of an antenna so things can only get better.

The conversion to loop will need to wait a few weeks more.

Any other signal reports are welcome!

Craig - N6IO

Deep Creek Lake, MD - FM09



On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Craig:
>
> The capture from Dick shows you to be possibly around 185,297.7
> which isn't a bad frequency. Most reception is done with QRSS-30
> slow which is pretty much eqiuvalent to QRSS-60 normal, but has
> the advantage of a wider frequency window of 6.7 Hz ... If the
> watering hole was centered; the readout would be from 185,296.65
> to 185,303.35 KHz. So you will easily be seen in there.
>
> Also; my beacon :: " XR " ; is on 185,298.75 KHz , and you may
> be right on top of me, or so close that it wil be difficult to
> distinguish between the 2 beacon signals at times.
>
> 73, and good luck with the beacon.
>
> Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA
> LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29875 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
> Coordinates:  N:  35º 43' 54" - W:  84º 3' 16"
> http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr
> http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/
>
>
>  --- On Sun, 2/21/10, craig wasson <craig at wasson.com> wrote:
>
> > On Friday night I QSY'd up one Hz
> > because a previous post by Dick showed me
> > lower than some of the viewers go.
> >
> > Because my antenna is tied up with the beacon and I spent
> > most of the
> > weekend shoveling snow, I didn't get a chance to properly
> > align my
> > IQ/spectravue/vac/speclab setup.  Could someone who
> > can see my IQ beacon
> > give me an accurate frequency check?   My
> > estimate is it's on 185,298.7 Hz.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dick Goodman" <wa3usg at verizon.net>
> > To: "LowFER Group" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:57 PM
> > Subject: [Lowfer] Saturday Morning Water Hole
> >
> >
> > >    I let my receiver & ARGO run all
> > night starting at around 11:30 PM
> > > Friday through dawn on Saturday. Just got around to
> > looking at the
> > > captures.
> > > This was the best I've ever seen conditions. Copied at
> > least six (6)
> > > beacons:
> > >
> > >    http://mysite.verizon.net/wa3usg/friday.jpg
> > >
> > >    Looks like there is someting right below
> > X R near the right .... also
> > > something not quite copyable near the bottom.
> > >
> > >    All this snow & cold weather must be
> > great for L.F.
> > >
> > >   73
> > >   Dick, WA3USG
> > >   Mechanicsburg
> > >   FN10LE
> > >
>
>
>
>
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