[Lowfer] Watering hole lowfers in NE IL

[Garry Hess]

Monitored 185.3 kHz with an e-probe in the early morning and found my 
local beacon not keying properly. The temperature dropped to -9F by 
sunrise but the failure probably isn't due to that, but rather due to a 
relay sticking after too many millions of operations. Will see how it 
behaves after things warm up but will plan on replacing it every summer 
to make sure the problem doesn't recur. Or better yet, replace it with a 
solid state relay. Anyway, it allowed lowfers SJ and TAG to come through 
rather well. TAG could be seen at times even with QRSS20 as in the 
attachment.
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73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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