[Lowfer] Monitoring the Watering hole tonight

Garry Hess k3siw at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 30 16:01:34 EDT 2010


Thanks for the report on SIW Andy. Didn't do nearly as well here. Since 
you reported good conditions recently and since I haven't tried to 
decode TAG since Spring, I started the evening with Wolf tuned for 185.8 
kHz. Through about 0400Z I didn't get any decodes but on two sequences 
the software did lock onto the correct frequency. Think just a bit more 
SNR will yield decodes. I looked briefly at the watering hole but only 
saw SIW. However, WEB was coming in great, as usual. Shows what a really 
good lowfer beacon can do! Ended up on 495 kHz monitoring WD2XSH/6 and 
/7. They were both very strong, but nonetheless as local sunrise came 
they faded quickly into my noise floor.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL


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