[Lowfer] 518 kHz Navtex

[Garry Hess]

Decently quiet conditions here last night made for good copy on 518 kHz 
Navtex stations. With an e-probe and sdr-iq logged 11 area 4 stations 
and 3 area 12 stations. Still no hint of Canada or Alaska from area 12 
and no copy yet of Greenland stations. Puerto Rico must have been off 
the air last night since Bermuda and Florida came in well. West coast 
station W in Astoria, OR does best here, in fact messages from it are 
decoding as this email is composed, but got a few decodes from stations 
Q and C as well.

Used a loop and sdr-iq on 474.2 kHz WSPR simultaneously. With the loop 
at 90 degrees to favor the west coast, WH2XGP decoded a number of times, 
but WG2XXM and WG2XIQ are still coming through too from SW.

Took a brief look for 3S on 252 kHz. Didn't copy it but did notice NDB 
SMS is still QRV at +1016 on USB with a 5.46 sec cycle.

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73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL