[Lowfer] 13 year LDE?

[Michael Sapp]

Dex: I've been monitoring .107 since about 2230Z. First nil in NE direction, 
switched SW about 2300UTC, nil that way as well, both directions monitored 
at QRSS30.  Moving up to .109 to see if I can copy XNI

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" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 13 year LDE?


> Thanks John!  I was counting on a very entertaining, informative reply 
> from you :)
>
> Since Garry is also seeing this jaws impostor lets consider it a fox and 
> go hunting on 186.107 kHz.
>
> Dex
>
> w1tag at charter.net wrote:
>> Zack,
>>
>> Dex is referring to a particularly ugly period of Lowfer history. I 
>> suppose these things need to be brought up from time to time, lest we 
>> revert to the behavior of those primitive days.
>>
>> In 2001, somewhere around the 185.300 Lowfer watering hole, a triangular 
>> waveform signal began appearing on a regular basis. Nobody seemed to have 
>> any idea where it was coming from, or who was responsible. There just 
>> weren't enough of us to properly DF it. The signal had the appearance of 
>> a shark's dorsal fin, so it was quickly dubbed "Jaws." Some of us were 
>> pretty convinced that we knew who was responsible, but we had no luck in 
>> getting the guy to confess his transgressions. It wasn't until I captured 
>> the signal one night, and noticed that there was a repeating pattern of 
>> Morse "N" and "C" on the sloping lines. See:
>> http://www.w1tag.com/pix/NC-JAWS.jpg
>>
>> I'll leave it to you to figure out which active Lowfer at the time was 
>> living in NC, and using that as a callsign. Such a waste of those 
>> microwatts of ERP...
>>
>> John, W1TAG
>>
>>
>
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