[Lowfer] 495 Questions
JD
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Sun Jul 31 13:27:04 EDT 2011
Is Ralph operating WD2XSH/7 in WSPR mode on or about 495.040 - ,046 at
present? Last night was the first time since getting the farm location that
I've seen a JASON-like mode appear on an Argo screen, so I'm not sure I'm
recognizing it correctly. (WSPR didn't exist back in those ancient days,
and for all I know, this might be a Hellschreiber greeting in Arabic!) The
CW ID is so bloomin' fast that there's no way I'll ever catch it through the
noise, even though the signal was audible strength. It took until the "/"
for my ears to sync, and then there was invariably a static crash right at
the numeral. The digimode is still visible this morning, although no longer
audible, at levels consistent with what I've observed from Ralph's station..
Also...can anyone confirm if Pat /6 is experiencing keyer problems? Last
night I was seeing broken carrier with sidebands consistent with Morse
keying, and then suddenly "H/6" materialized in QRSS, followed almost
immediately by what could have been taken for a fifth dit in the numeral,
except it showed sidebands of keying as well. It wasn't strong enough to
copy by ear, though, so I couldn't really tell what was going on.
It takes more than one screen width at 3-sec. slow to display even this
shortened form of Pat's ID, so it may be a while before I can attach a
sufficiently compressed screen shot.
John D.
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