[Lowfer] Watering Hole at KU4XR 1/22/2010

[Zack Widup]

About what time was this?  I tried listening at around 0600Z and didn't hear
anything on any of the LW broadcast frequencies.

Did anyone see my e-mail about my loop antenna? I'm not sure why I'm getting
such poor perfomance from it.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> While experimenting with a feedline isolation transformer last night,
> I noticed a lot of " scratch " sound while listening to NDB - DIW.
> I switched to A.M. and tuned to 196 KHz and heard a LW station.
> Then I went to 183 KHz, and Europe-1 was 10 dB over S-9. Propagation
> was HOT, so I parked on the Watering Hole overnight, and caught at
> the least, traces of four signals at the same time in one capture.
> " MP " " CV " " WMS " and the " WM " graphical ID. They're not
> perfect copy, but this is the best reception I've had on 185.300
> By 4:30 am EST ( 09:00 UTC ) the lowFER band just bottomed out !!
> no more signal the rest of the night, not even at dawn. It sure was
> fun while it lasted, you can see the best capture I got here :
>
> http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/185.300%20at%20KU4XR%20%201-22-2010.jpg
>
> I did have to do some brightening up to make some of the signals
> clear enough to know they are there. Squint, look close, use a
> magnifying glass, you'll see them. hi - hi
>
> 73 all :::
>
>
> Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
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