[Lowfer] Running WG2XCT CW beacon on 471.80 KHz all weekend

Michael Sapp wa3tts at verizon.net
Sun Apr 27 12:33:54 EDT 2014


Pat: After midnight your 471.8 kHz signal was moving the S-meter along with 
the background QRN crashes last nite to about S2~S3 at times with the RX 
pre-amp on. Rapid fade/recover on CW characters continued.

http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag19/wa3tts/capt00004_zpsa6f6d14f.jpg 
This capture made with rx preamp off.

That being the case you could likely turn the power down 30dB (or more) for 
a solid QRSS60 capture over the 400mi path.

195 degree heading to EM94bw about 35 degrees off the main heading of my SW 
EWE pattern, perhaps 1 dB or so down from it's

230 degree main heading in EN90xn.   Output of my ZLW-1 mixer & OCXO 
converter was split at the time to also copy WSPR2 on a second receiver.


Woke up briefly around 1100Z and your signal was just copyable by ear with 
narrow filters.

Tnx for the beaconing.  73, Mike wa3tts




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Bunn" <pbunn at matrixei.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Running WG2XCT CW beacon on 471.80 KHz all weekend


> Michael
>
> Thanks for the capture and report.
>
> Pat
> WG2XCT
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 26, 2014, at 11:01 PM, N8OOU <n8oou at meekfarm.us> wrote:
>
>> Argo captures of 471.8 received by my kenwood ts-480 and 5 band trap 
>> vertical. Early evening nothing was audible or visible in argo at qrss3
>> After local sunset argo started showing a line but again nothing audible. 
>> At 02:24 utc the signal strength improved as shown in the capture. Was 
>> able to decode the cw id by ear, and a switch to cw/ndb mode in argo.
>>
>> Good Luck N8OOU M.Meek
>> On 04/26/2014 09:58 AM, Pat Bunn wrote:
>>> Running CW beacon at about 400 watts all weekend letting transmitter 
>>> burn in. 471.8 KHz CW. All reports appreciated especially ground wave.
>>>
>>> Pat
>>> WG2XCTo
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> --
>> 73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek
>>
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