[Lowfer] Watering Hole overnight in Friendsville, TN. 9-29-2010

[Andy - KU4XR]

Greetings all:

Well it wasn't a fruitless night, but no abundance either.
Of the 2 stations that I know were on, I did get some fragments
of signals from each.... I did get all 3 letters of " SIW " ,
unfortunately not all in sequence, so it dosen't count for a
reception, but Garrys signal was in there with visible traces
numerous times thru the night. And strangely again, the signal 
peaked between 10:30pm, and 11:30 pm local time ( EDST ) the 
same as when I found " EAR " on Tues. night.   I also saw some
traces, and fragmented characters of " UWL " showing up very close
to 185,301.5 KHz and my calibration may be off a few tenths of a
cycle. I was getting Garry at 185,299.3 KHz ... At approximately
2am EDST I received an " L " from " UWL " but the first dit in the 
letter was coming out of a fade, so it really looks like a " G " 
on the screen. But knowing the frequency, and the beacon; I knew it
was Eric. He has a distinguishable signal line right at the noise
floor for quite some time, but it never really came up out of the
noise. The distance between Eric, and Myself is about 752 miles
so that's not bad at all, especially in QRSS-30 mode. QRSS-60 may
very well have made the difference in a solid reception here.
The distance between Garry, and myself is 492 miles.
" XR " is of course still off while I continue my work on the
new antenna.  " CV " is off till Charlie can get his antenna back 
in the air. " Paul reports that " WMS " is down for some repairs.
" MP " is currently on 2200 meters, and the dual " WM's " show up
only sporadically when Bill fires them up. " XDW " Laurence is 
moving around too much right now to throw a fishing pole out a
window somewhere, and " IO " haven't ever saw that signal yet.

OK, that's it for now, you Gents all have a great day, 73 :


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA
LOWfer Beacon " XR " @ 185.29875 KHz ( QRSS-60 )

*** Temporarily OFF, while constructing a new antenna ***

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