[Lowfer] TH Chasing

John Andrews w1tag at charter.net
Sat Dec 31 09:01:58 EST 2016


Decided to run some QRSS3 captures on 189.360 last night, looking for 
TH. Based on Mike Sapp's earlier postings, I deduced the long message 
that Carl is sending. My neighborhood crud is not exactly quiet these 
days, and the sidebands from the Iceland station on 189 kHz were pretty 
loud. During songs, you get some interesting CW-like effects on a QRSS3 
screen that's centered 360 Hz above their carrier!

Anyway, I did manage to copy some of Carl's signal on 189.365 kHz, with 
the best around 0635Z. The most I can say is that I got clear text of 
"Ferry Rd" and his zip code, "29036." The TH ID's occupy so little time 
out of the total message that I can't find them. I also had some gaps 
between captures, due to poor decision-making.

Armed with this info, I'm going to try some well-timed .wav files this 
week, and see if I can tease out the CW. The distance between me and 
Carl is 769 miles, which is no record, but it'll be fun to see how it 
works out.

John, W1TAG


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