[Lowfer] 10 mW into SE Kansas on 630 m

[John Langridge]

HI JD!

Congrats on pulling my tiny signal from the noise!  That was a stock U3 sitting behind a few pads.  Not bad at all!

I was unable to open your screenshot link  - "404 file not found" error.

Thanks again for the loss of sleep and for the ground wave reports yesterday afternoon.

John XIQ



________________________________
 From: JD <listread at lwca.org>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 1:00 AM
Subject: [Lowfer] 10 mW into SE Kansas on 630 m
 

It took until nearly midnight for anyone other than XXM to show up, but 
somebody (apparently) in CN83 achieved a partial decode at 0440.  Then at 
0448, XIQ finally made it at 10 mW!  There have been two more decodes of XIQ 
since, including one showing -30 dB. ( 
http://lwca.org/mbarchiv/pix/0520e.jpg )

On the other hand, there were traces of the XIQ signal visible on the 
waterfalls as early as 0428, just below the QRM, that I thought would 
decode, and several since, but which didn't.  FWIW, static seems to be 10 dB 
over S9 tonight, appreciably worse than last night; but this may wax and 
wane over time as the signal levels are doing.  I'd like to keep going 
overnight, but I don't know if I'll survive a third night of napping in the 
truck seat to guard the radio stuff and keep everything charged up. :)  I 
will continue a bit longer, though, just to see what happens.

JD

0438   4 -1.1   0.475711  0 WG2XXM EM15 30
0440 -25 -0.8   0.475687  0 <...> CN83 37
0442   2 -1.2   0.475711  0 WG2XXM EM15 30
0446   0 -1.2   0.475711  0 WG2XXM EM15 30
0448 -26 -1.3   0.475619  0 WG2XIQ EM12 10
0450   0 -1.2   0.475711  0 WG2XXM EM15 30
0454  -2 -1.1   0.475711  0 WG2XXM EM15 30
0456 -30 -1.3   0.475618  0 WG2XIQ EM12 10 

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