[Lowfer] Interesting 74.321 KHz results in Mechanicsburg, PA. FN10LE

[Michael Sapp]

Dex: Your (100W "to the antenna" power) at 74 kHz signal still peaking -30 
range in Argo in EN90xn....73, Mike wa3tts

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dexter McIntyre W4DEX" <dexter.mc at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Interesting 74.321 KHz results in Mechanicsburg, PA. 
FN10LE


> Dick,
>
> I turned off XRS5 just after 1 p.m. as shown on your 3rd screen.   As the 
> temp warmed above freezing the antenna matching was way off.  The blip on 
> your 4th screen is a test I did after adjusting the antenna matching.  It 
> was a bit after 7 p.m. when I powered back up.  I turned the beacon off 
> between about 9:30 to a bit after 10 p.m. because it was interfering with 
> my 432 mhz QSOs.  Initially I thought the noise I was receiving on 432 MHz 
> was corona but I saw no indication of corona on the scope match waveforms. 
> I sure hope the noise wasn't corona.  The power on 74 kHz is only a bit 
> over 100 watts.
>
> Dex
>
> Dick Goodman wrote:
>> Gang,
>>  Please find a link to four (4) plots that I ran on the 74 KHz
>> transmissions on 7 & 8 January. What I found the most interesting is that 
>> on
>> the afternoon of January 8, after being totally faded out for several 
>> hours,
>> XRS4 popped back in twice for about a minute each time. There was a very
>> recent solar flare over the last day, could that have caused this or is 
>> what
>> I'm seeing a normal propagation effect? 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/xc6svubtedwt5yn/74321.jpg?m=
>>  73
>> Dick, WA3USG
>>
>
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