[Lowfer] DK7FC

[Garry Hess]

As others have commented, it was a very noisy night for LF reception. 
Looked for XPQ on 506881 Hz to no avail and was about to pull the plug 
when I noticed Jay's grabber (http://www.w1vd.com/grabber.html) was 
receiving Stephan, DK7FC quite well. I tuned to 136172 Hz not really 
expecting anything since the noise floor was elevated on average almost 
10 dB. Caught the final dash-dot of a call sequence. Had to wait 15 
minutes or so for the next sequence and the end of that was well past 
Stephan's sunrise. Nonetheless everything came through except one dot in 
the 7. And that wasn't because the signal faded but rather an e-probe 
instability problem that cropped up on this end. Jay's grabber showed a 
second signal at 136172.5 Hz (NM - from DF6NM?, about 10 dB weaker than 
DK7FC). Couldn't see that here but perhaps if I'd have looked earlier it 
might have come through too. Thanks for running your grabber Jay!

Ended the night tuned to the 185300 Hz lowfer watering hole. Copied 
"MBD" once at 185294.8 Hz around 1130Z. SJ was seen decently for quite 
awhile but nothing definite was noticed from either WMS or TAG. SIW was 
active and overload from that plus the lightning racket certainly didn't 
help.
-- 
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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