[Lowfer] WG2XCT CW Beacon on 475.1 KHz

[pbunn]

John

Thanks again for the reports. Looking forward to the winter and less noise. Hopefully I will have both 137 and 74 KHz up and going then.

Pat
N4LTA

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From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of JD
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:51 PM
To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WG2XCT CW Beacon on 475.1 KHz

My later start time tonight resulted in somewhat fewer bugs but no less lightning static, apparently.  Another continuous roar.

When I first got there around 9:30 PM CDT, I couldn't hear anything at all from XCT or even see a trace on Argo at QRSS3.  I diverted my attention to HF for a little while, where codar was blasting away fiercely, but I could still see USC, SIW slant mode, and NC, with the occasional trace of EH.

Returning to 475.1 around 10 PM, I did see a trace right on 475.100 and could hear keying faintly.  (Also, even though I was able to adjust my passband to put XSH/6 far enough down the slope to fall below audibility, Argo was still able to bring it up readably on a second screen.)  Pretty soon, XCT began creeping up in level.  At its peak, around 10:12 CDT, I could copy two and three characters at a time.  A "WG2" here and a "G2X" 
there were pretty convincing to me, at least.  The level dwindled after that, but seemed to be returning gradually again by the time I had to quit at 10:20.

With an S-unit little less QRN, I think copy would be quite solid.

John
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