[Lowfer] 474.2 kHz WSPR over night

[Michael Sapp]

Garry & All: Nice work Garry. Just a few west coast decodes the past few 
nights in EN90xn

 2014-09-09 06:20   WD2XSH/20   0.475685   -29   0   CN83lu   20   WA3TTS 
EN90xn   3520   81
 2014-09-09 06:12   WD2XSH/20   0.475685   -25   0   CN83lu   20   WA3TTS 
EN90xn   3520   81
 2014-09-09 06:08   WD2XSH/20   0.475685   -26   0   CN83lu   20   WA3TTS 
EN90xn   3520   81

 2014-09-09 05:14   WH2XGP   0.475699   -30   0   DN07dg   10   WA3TTS 
EN90xn   3227   89

Previous evening

 2014-09-08 05:02   WH2XGP   0.475699   -31   0   DN07dg   10   WA3TTS 
EN90xn   3227   89

My EWE antenna does not favor the WNW or NW direction. I tried "omni mode" 
with the EWE unterminated. That was
not particularly useful on  evening of Sept 8.  On Sept 9 I had the EWE 
terminated to favor the SW and ran a slightly higher termination resistance 
to
lower the F/B a few dB, thinking it may help to hear better off the side. 
Perhaps it helped a tad. Making slow progress here towards setting up 
another LF/MF EWE
pointed to the NW for the upcoming season.

73, Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hess" <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 8:37 AM
Subject: [Lowfer] 474.2 kHz WSPR over night


> Had nearby storms develop here over night but the west coast stations 
> decoded fairly well anyway when the receivers were fired up. Shut them 
> down a couple times to protect against lightning. Like others have found, 
> propagation has really perked up recently. Listened with both an eprobe 
> and a 10' loop. Generally they're well-matched but when the loop was 
> reaimed NW it produced SNRs several dB better then the eprobe for the west 
> coast stations, even though the storms were 100 miles to the west and thus 
> not in the loop nulls.
> -- 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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