[Lowfer] Signals from the west

[N8OOU]

Garry, thanks for the WM report. My dog woke me at 4:30a this morning, 
it was -12F here at that time. The P.A. current was running steady, but 
a tad on the low side. I adjusted the power up to normal, and the beacon 
has returned to it's steady state so far this morning.

 From my in-experience and lack of engineering knowledge on the subject, 
It just seems like something about the either was altering how well it 
absorbed the power from the beacon.

73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek

On 02/20/2015 08:15 AM, Garry wrote:
> Began monitoring 518 kHz Navtex last night but moved to 490 kHz in
> disgust when area 4 station N failed to shut down around 0300Z and
> instead sent continuous idle tones. It's frustrating how often US Navtex
> stations transmit well beyond their allotted 10 minute windows, thus
> making reception of more distant stations impossible. But it's really
> ridiculous how often US Navtex stations fail by not shutting down at
> all. Is this rocket science?
>
> Moved to 490 kHz and decoded Canadian stations D and V in French. Don't
> think station S is active in the winter but expected to copy station J
> and didn't. Perhaps it's OTA.
>
> NDB signals from BC to an eprobe were the best they've been for quite
> awhile. Examples are XC and ZT on 242 kHz, XX on 344 kHz, and SX and ZP
> on 368 kHz. Despite that good propagation 474.2 kHz WSPR signals via a
> loop aimed west from VE7BDQ (-16 dB best snr) and WH2XGP (-13 dB best
> snr) weren't much different than the night before.
>
> Lowfer WM continues to put out a great signal. It's been solid all night
> and also through daylight today.