[Lowfer] HA-DGPS

[Garry Hess]

As WA2XRM reports, a high accuracy 500 baud wideband DGPS source is now 
active from near Pueblo, CO on 458 kHz. It wasn't on yesterday 
(11/11/10) in the afternoon through 2300Z even though the co-sited 
"normal" 100 baud DGPS source on 307 kHz was coming through well enough 
to decode. However, it was easy copy around 0300Z, 11/12/10 in NE IL. A 
similar wideband source is on 454 kHz from Hagerstown, MD. There may be 
a third source active on 456 kHz from Hawk Run, PA but I haven't seen 
that one yet.

What a difference 24 hours makes. The Kodiak, AK Navtex station wasn't 
even noticed at 1140Z this morning after being 20 dB above the noise 
floor the previous morning and decoding weakly at 0510Z (San Francisco, 
Long Beach, Astoria, and Torfino BC also decoded around then). VX9BDQ on 
506.5 kHz WSPR was decoded around 0340Z but by 1200Z it had disappeared 
from the WSPR waterfall.

On the lowfer scene, XR was good as usual at the watering hole and WMS 
was better than usual. Still no hint of UWL.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL