[Lowfer] DK7FC

[Douglas D. Williams]

Wow, congrats Garry!

When I saw the s-meter last night I gave up, switched everything off and
went to bed.

73, Doug KB4OER

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:32 AM, <jrusgrove at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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<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<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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