[Lowfer] SIW in Friendsville, TN

[Andy - KU4XR]

--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> You witnessed "battery death" on SIW.
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Hmmm; well that explains that then. No wierd propagational phenomenon..


Andy - KU4XR - EM75xr - Friendsville, TN. USA



--- On Mon, 3/7/11, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] SIW in Friendsville, TN
> To: "lowfer at mailman.qth.net >> lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, March 7, 2011, 3:14 PM
> Andy,
> 
> You witnessed "battery death" on SIW. The keyer and logic
> run off a 5 V 
> regulator so no problem with them, but the OCXO needs a
> decent battery 
> voltage. It's been mainly overcast many days now and the
> small solar 
> panel wasn't doing much to recharge the batteries. NK9M has
> them on the 
> bench charging as I write this and SIW should be QRV by
> this evening.
> 
> The noise last night made waterhole monitoring unattractive
> but I did 
> find TACAMO on 18.9 kHz after 0500Z. The four short
> transmissions of 50 
> baud RTTY (I think) were too weak to decode. They show up
> as blips on 
> the KL7UK grabber. Thanks to David for pointing out this
> activity.
> 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL