[Lowfer] Wm Beacon

[Douglas D. Williams]

Drat. I forgot to turn captures on.

Glad the vertical is working well for you Mike. You must have good soil
conductivity.

I'll monitor tonight for sure.

We're having a white Thanksgiving here in east TN.

D. KB4OER



On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, N8OOU <n8oou at meekfarm.us> wrote:

> Gary, Ben, Jay, Others;
>
> Wow what captures! I am totally floored with these results. I did have it
> up and down last night and saw it several times in Jay's grabber. I ran out
> of daylight before I got the ground system together.
>
> Right now the ground plane is made up of an Al extension ladder laying on
> the ground, clipped to a 3 ft long rod pushed 2 Ft in the ground, and a
> couple random wires laying on the ground clipped to the rod. I am going out
> in a few minutes to refine that a bit.
>
> The antenna is 1 wire 26 ft up, with a 5 wire 20 Ft long tophat. All are
> 17 gauge Al. electric fence wire.
>
> Thanks Guys.
>
> 73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek
>
> On 11/26/2014 01:53 PM, Ben Hall wrote:
>
>> On 11/26/2014 12:53 PM, Andy - KU4XR via Lowfer wrote:
>>
>>> Wow Ben... To me, that's a bit beyond reasonable for daytime copy of a
>>> lowFER signal..
>>> That's pretty darn good ..
>>>
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>
>>  I was looking during the same time period, and saw a few weak
>>> hints of " WM " here near Knoxville, but nothing close to what you are
>>> seeing..
>>> Keep this up, and you'll get bit by the LF bug... hi - hi
>>>
>>
>> I think it has already happened...  ;)  Was looking at the Ultimate3
>> QRSS/WSPR transmitter kit at QRP labs the other day...  ;)
>>
>> thanks much and 73,
>> ben, kd5byb
>>
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