[Lowfer] SIW today (also TAG & DK7FC)

[Michael Sapp]

Garry: Thanks for your report.  I did have a partial capture on DK7FC from 
about 0239~0310 last night...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5sey5n9suammug/capt00062.jpg?dl=0

The "D" is reasonably solid capture, missed the "K", only the three dits on 
the "7", just barely a hint of a dah on the "F" along with the dits, and a 
reasonably solid "C".

Given the K index was at 4 at the time I was surprised to copy that much. 
W1TAG posted a decent DK7FC copy on the blacksheep list....

I switched to 185.3 after about 2AM local here....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkwdsas708astn4/capt00065.jpg?dl=0

TAG overdriving ARGO a bit and blooming most of this capture. Perhaps a hint 
of WM about 0740.

Ditto on this capture a few hours later, perhaps a hint of WM at 1035 UTC

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjkx324gyj7d21x/capt00067.jpg?dl=0

Still a hint of TAG in here this morning at 1400UTC...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d736sib4ea6a15r/capt00070.jpg?dl=0

I had both the NW and NE EWE antennas combined overnite for these captures. 
Perhaps using only the NE antenna would have been better

for DK7FC, but I thought I would give the combination a try to see if it 
helped manage the local noise environment...

73, Mike wa3tts



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry Hess" <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] SIW today


> Mike, thanks for the lowfer report. Wonder how you did with DF7FC over 
> night?
>
> Signals were generally better here than previous nights. As usual, NDB GPI 
> on 309 kHz from Columbia came through awhile around 0300Z. Spent most time 
> monitoring 490 and 518 kHz for Navtex stations. The previous night got 
> decodes from all 3 US west coast stations on 518 kHz. Last night none of 
> them decoded but Tofino, BC did decode at 0526 and 1105Z. Saw a neat 
> transition on 320 kHz DGPS at 1105Z from decodes of ID160 in AL to decodes 
> of ID304 in BC. No wonder Tofino came in so well.
>
> On 490 kHz got the start of message "ZCZC JB" at 0538Z. Signals from the 
> east were good at that time so it might have been Horta in the Azores. But 
> the text was so garbled it wasn't clear just what the language was (it 
> should have been Portuguese for Horta) so it remains a mystery.
> -- 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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