[Lowfer] Navtex DX - lots of DX!

Garry Hess k3siw at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 5 11:12:44 EST 2014


FB J.B.! I didn't monitor Navtex last night; instead listened for DK7FC 
on 136 kHz WSPRX-15. That certainly confirmed good T/A conditions 
persist. Made 5 decodes here 0130-0400Z and the waterfall clearly showed 
Stefan for at least another hour. Guess the signal was then weaker than 
my bottom limit for decoding, which apparently is a bit below -37 dBr. 
Would have been nice to decode Iceland, England, and Ireland again on 
Navtex but at least I didn't miss anything that hasn't decoded before.

Noticed the Cape Ray DGPS station on 288 kHz was still unusually strong 
after midnight so left ARGO running at QRSS30 and tuned down for TAG. 
Couldn't see SJ with that tuning and my local beacon was causing 
overload issues (thanks for another nice capture Mark), but did copy TAG 
at times.

As I write this the Billings, MT DGPS station on 313 kHz is coming in 
nicely in the daylight from 1473 km.

Hope tonight will be another good one.
-- 
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL


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