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

[Andy - KU4XR]

Zack:

It was around 10:30pm EST ( 03:30 UTC ) , some of the best
reception conditions I've seen here in a while.

I read you post about your loop, But I know " Nothing " about
loops so couldn't offer any worthwhile comments.

73, and good weekend to you :::


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN.
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29866 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84* 3' 16"
http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr
http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/


--- On Fri, 1/22/10, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Watering Hole at KU4XR 1/22/2010
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 1:22 PM
> 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.
> > LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29866 KHz ( QRSS-60 )
> > Coordinates:  N:  35* 43' 54" - W:  84*
> 3' 16"
> > http://www.myspace.com/beaconxr
> > http://webpages.charter.net/ku4xr/
> >