[Lowfer] BeFER (Low HiFER?) WI2XJP

[Warren K2ORS]

John,


       Thank you for going out for a listening session despite the 
weather and for the detailed report!
73 Warren


On 8/7/2016 12:54 AM, listread at lwca.org wrote:
> Today's listening efforts were limited by rain this morning, then my
> taking an unexpectedly long nap at mid-day.  XJP was definitely present
> during the afternoon, though. Neither signal nor noise caused the S-meter
> to budge, but there was usable copy at least 50% of the time; would have
> been more but for the rapid, deep fades that took out part of a
> letter...sometimes just a single dit or a fraction of a dah. This
> persisted to about three hours before sunset, when copy slowly started to
> improve.
>
>>From then on, copy would have been around 60%, increasing to over 80% in
> the time span of 90 to 60 minutes before sunset.  In the next 45 minutes
> it became nearly 100%, and there were times when signal rose to above S1
> briefly.
>
> Signal levels peaked right at sunset, with some characters reaching S9
> (but others barely S1, yet still nicely copyable).  After dark, signals
> settled down to the S5-S7 range for the most part. The other carrier a few
> Hz lower came up in level, too, but was never a problem.  Packed up and
> headed back to town at 9 PM CDT.
>
> (BTW, those S-meter readings may not sound too impressive for a decent
> receiver hooked to a 15 meter vertical, but that's with an antenna buffer
> in the path that deliberately attenuates everything from the low end of
> the AM band to about 13 MHz.)
>
> John
>
> On Sat, August 6, 2016 3:03 pm, Warren K2ORS wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> Thanks for the capture!
>> Unfortunately lots of DX but not much of a local signal which is what I
>> wanted. Dipole probably too high - nearly 1/2 wavelength above ground.
>>
>> Will leave it on until Saturday evening, I will put out a note to the
>> reflector prior to going QRT.
>>
>> 73 Warren
>>
>
>

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