[Lowfer] Navtex

[Garry Hess]

Jay and J.B., glad you were able to copy $04I, the new station in 
Greenland. Another new one, $04M, Simiutaq/Cape Farewell transmits 
0200,0600,1000,1400,1800,2200Z. Unfortunately that's when Miami 
transmits so I haven't copied that one yet. Conditions are improving so 
I'll try nulling Miami with a loop antenna one of these nights to see if 
that works. That may also help some Europeans decode.
I have a huge spur on 490 kHz so can't hear anything there other than a 
few strong Canadian sources. On 518 kHz strong US signals usually drown 
out everyone else. Last night though I did get one decode of $15K, 
Puerto Mont, Chile in between messages from $12Q, Long Beach, CA.

WD2XSH/29 was sending CMSK31 last evening on 477.5 kHz and that decoded 
fine despite storms to the south. But the path was only 641 km and QSB 
was long and deep. Same QSB on WD2XSH/12 WSPR with the SNR down perhaps 
10 dB from usual.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL