[Lowfer] hearing tonite/JD

Bob Raide rjraide at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 7 18:22:59 EST 2012


The longer skip just wasn't there. Maybe better tonite-Bob
WE2XGR/6 

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> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:31:55 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] hearing tonite...
> 
> Bob, your signal was easy armchair copy when I checked this evening (a 
> couple of different times between 0300 and 0400), generally 45 dB above 
> background! That would have been ample for high quality voice!
> 
> Also heard WD2XSH/6 beaconing on 495.028 in both QRSS3 and slow Morse in 
> that same general time frame. Had to turn Argo's sensitivity way, way down 
> for that one, too.
> 
> I then watched the transatlantic window at 136 khz for a while, but only got 
> some broken QRSS-like keying at 136.172 kHz. Up at the North American end, 
> MP was blasting away and VO1NA was there with "NA" IDs having a little 
> longer delays between them than I remember being usual. Both of these guys' 
> signal levels were pretty consistent.
> 
> At the 185.3 watering hole, WMS was absent as advertised. Still no HSA 
> here, though. SIW was there with a bit of fading, and WM would be strong 
> for one or two cycles, then absent for a few...very deep fading. Iceland's 
> carrier and sidebands made EAR too difficult for me tonight. By midnightm I 
> was too sleepy to stay up any longer, unfortunately.
> 
> John 
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