[Lowfer] 518 kHz Navtex

[n8tl]

Hi Garry:

Good copy from Puerto Montt.....I am planning to try Navtex tonight and 
see what shows up.  I will be
using YAND software with the VD modified e-probe feeding the IC-R75. So 
much for condo living!! With this combo, at least I can participate in 
the monitor side of VLF, LF, and MF frequencies. My transmit
activity is limited to 160 through 10 meters with the stealth vertical GP.

Tom N8TL

On 02/08/2015 08:18 AM, Garry Hess wrote:
> Conditions seemed down here last night, but you never know what might 
> show up. The highlight of the evening was a pair of area 15 station K 
> decodes around 0835Z from Puerto Montt, Chile at 9413 km. As in the 
> past this station sends messages in Spanish rather than the 
> international standard of English for 518 kHz.
>
> Otherwise, the number of area 4 station decodes was below par with 
> just 11, but DX stations B in Bermuda, I in Greenland, and R in Puerto 
> Rico did come through. From area 12, only US west coast stations Q and 
> W decoded.