[Lowfer] Happy (Within Reason) New year

[Douglas D. Williams]

Thanks for the report John, and happy New Year, you nite owl.

D.



On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:34 AM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Yesterday evening I took a nap in anticipation of being up this late a
> second night in a row.  As it turns out, I probably should have just gone
> straight to the field.  When I began just after 10 PM CST, Stefan's signal
> was showing dogbones on Argo.  I got a nice solid F and C--and then
> somebody
> switched off the North Atlantic in the middle of whatever the next letter
> was supposed to be!  I got two dits, and then nothing further in the
> European window the rest of the night.
>
> In the upper segment of the band, MP was lighting up the interior of the
> car
> and the "VO1NA HNY" greeting was there quite nicely too.  Might I suggest
> to
> Joe, though, that the faster QRSS rate would work better with a little
> greater frequency shift.  There were times during a few of the deeper brief
> fades that QRSS20 Slow detected the presence of signal more clearly than
> QRSS30 did, but it was harder to see when the transition between
> frequencies
> occured.  (I was running two simultaneous instances of Argo to be able to
> make that comparison.  I'll dig out those captures later today when I can
> see well enough to work on them and compress the daylights out of 'em for
> posting.)  Both MP and VO1NA remained visible every time I checked
> throughout the night, and MP was clearly audible every time.
>
> At 185, WMS was solid and steady all night.  So was SIW down at 185.185.
>  No
> sign of WM, unfortunately.  BR was not very strong early in the evening,
> with only the Morse ID being audible at first.  Later, in the wee hours,
> some of the voice came through too.  I checked a few times for SJ and PBO,
> but probably without success.  There was a trace that I thought might maybe
> possibly be Sal's signal if I wished hard enough, but it was broken up
> sufficiently that I couldn't be sure, and I thought the keying rate looked
> too slow.  Nothing at all where PBO should be, alas.  I'll have to keep
> trying when winter nighttime conditions permit.
>
> Europe 1 was the dominant LWBC tonight, though Iceland was also doing
> pretty
> well by the time I shut down and returned to town.
>
> Happy New Year to all, and to all a good night.
>
> John
>
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