[Lowfer] DK7FC

[Zack Widup]

We had a small thunderstorm here in Champaign, IL. I was driving
across town last night at about 11 pm and saw several lightning
flashes.

80 was noisy in the CW NAQP last night, too. I didn't try 160.

73, Zack W9SZ


On 1/13/13, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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
>