[Lowfer] WMS - Best Ever - and Propagation Tonite 1/23/2013

[W5COV]

WMS is still showing up every night , on the Austin , Texas grabber ( http://www.techlib.com/slm.htm ) , sometimes just for brief periods too. I can only recall one day/night this season when he didn't make at least a brief appearance . He often also shows up during the day on it for brief periods of time . The grabber is run by Charles Wenzel , an avid LowFER listener and builder , in the DC-2MHz. range .

WMS is not as strong , which appears to probably be propagation , as he was when he first got his beacon back to full power this season .

Just this week I have hired a person to work on getting my LowFER beacon antenna back up for me . He can only do it in his spare time , but made great progress earlier this week . Trying to catch him and the days when it isn't winter is a bit of a challenge . However after 2 years of not being able to find anyone to do the work , that I am not physically able to do , a few days delay are sure not a problem with me. I may return to the air by as soon as early next week and also once again have my HF , G5RV antennas back up , so perhaps we can once again have some LF QSO's and discussions .

Once the beacon is back on the air , then the receive antennas will come down for much needed service and upgrades , so this discussion has not only been extremely informative , but very timely too .

Charlie , W5COV
---- Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> Looked some hours after Andy reported WMS very strong on 1/23/2013 and 
> was surprised not to even detect it. Same for last night when I looked 
> at the watering hole around 1100Z. SJ was fine and TAG was in there too 
> so the receiving setup was working normally. Does anyone still copy WMS?
> -- 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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