[Lowfer] 474.2 kHz WSPR good condx alert

[Michael Sapp]

Garry, Jay & All: No T/As here in EN90 when the coastal stations had 
favorable propagation to EU last night. It was rather noisy here with the 
frontal passage and all the power line insulators drying out made for plenty 
of short-spike impulse noise.  It quieted down later in the evening and I 
did have a few intervals of enhanced propagation to the NW, seeing XGP at -9 
and -11 as lowest SNRs and a pleasant surprise to see Neil's XSV signal be 
captured at -30. The wspr server was not liking my wspr-x uploads after 
about 11PM so I switched to the basic WSPR program for the overnight rx 
session---which gives up a little bit of decoding sensitivity...

Both of these decodes would have been audible...

2015-11-01 09:50   WH2XGP   0.475687   -9   0   DN07dg   10   WA3TTS/2 
EN90xn   3227   89
2015-11-01 06:14   WH2XGP   0.475687   -11   0   DN07dg   10   WA3TTS/2 
EN90xn   3227   89

Any time I can decode Neil's XSV signal I know the propagation path is 
better than normal

 2015-11-01 06:38   WG2XSV   0.475759   -30   0   CN85rq   1   WA3TTS/2 
EN90xn   3454   84

The rest of the overnite was routine, perhaps a dozen or XGP decodes, maybe 
more....

Having kept an eye on the solar X-ray flare graph last night, my casual 
guess is that we had a few C-flares of suitable duration to  give the 
ionosphere an LF/MF lift at times.....but no extended time periods of 
enhancement.

I also monitored 137.775 to 137780 last night with no signals from either 
XPQ or NA observed....

Hamfest early this morning yielded a Ray Jeff 6150 ADF for $40, supposedly 
working.... ~:)  Nice find to add
to my collection of Zenith 780 and 790 Navigators and my personal favorite, 
the Benmar 555A LF navigation radio...

73, Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry and Linda Hess" <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lowfer mailing list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 474.2 kHz WSPR good condx alert


> Jay, conditions here actually were down from previous nights, at least on 
> 474.2 kHz WSPR. There was plenty of activity but SNRs were lower. To my 
> south WG2XXM and XIQ were upwards of 10 dB weaker than usual. Nonetheless, 
> NDB MJL on 240 kHz from Mejillones, Chile came in well in the middle of 
> the night. Go figure.
>
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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