[Lowfer] DK7FC

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Garry

Congrats on copy of Stefan ... I'm sure he would like a copy of your capture! That may be the 
furthest US inland reception for him ... not sure though. Yes, the other signal was Markus, DF6NM.

Pse confirm that your reception was on an e probe?

http://www.w1vd.com/interestinggrab.html

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hess" <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:22 AM
Subject: [Lowfer] DK7FC


> 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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