[Lowfer] "PBO" tid bits

Andy - KU4XR ku4xr at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 18 15:32:12 EST 2011


Hi Garry:  I cropped out the frequency, and time so the attachment
would pass. The time the best signal occured was around 0700 UTC,
and his frequency was showing 187,199.95 KHz ( +/- sampling errors )

Andy - KU4XR 


--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] "PBO" tid bits
> To: "lowfer at mailman.qth.net >> lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 2:36 PM
> Andy,
> 
> It would help if you named your attachments as .jpg files
> rather than 
> binary. After I opened your file I found it had compressed
> away 
> information on time and frequency.
> 
> I looked last night a bit for PBO too, from about
> 0930-1200Z. That's 
> certainly later than optimal but when I started EMP was
> coming in good 
> enough to aurally copy the Morse code. I'm lucky to have no
> TV 
> interference, just one "weird" trace and a couple of spur
> lines. Only 
> thing that might have been PBO was quite high in frequency,
> around 
> 187.2013 kHz, so I doubt that was really it. If you
> indicate the 
> frequency where you saw it that would remove the doubt.
> 
> I've only caught traces of PBO in a couple of years of
> trying. I also 
> have trouble with the WMs, but recently they've both been
> showing up on 
> watering-hole captures. For some reason, probably the great
> sensitivity 
> of Wolf, TAG regularly decodes and SJ comes in decently
> from the East 
> even at QRSS20 when it's QRV.
> 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL



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