[Lowfer] Lowfer WM

[N8OOU]

Garry, Nice catch. I had just powered the beacons back up after pulling 
the plug at 3 AM because of a heavy overhead thunderstorm. The front has 
now passed so I deemed it safe to start up.

This time I powered both exciter and PA at the once. You say this was 
the third location, by that, do you mean frequency? If so, this was a 
cold start for the TXCO, and I have seen it take a little time to warm 
up and settle. In the past I have started the exciter and let it run 
before powering the PA. Hopefully by now it has come back up a couple 
tenth's.

Thanks for listening.

73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek

On 09/26/2016 09:05 AM, Garry wrote:
> No copy here this morning of lowfer WM at the watering hole. But then
> all of a sudden it was in there fine. Must have been down for tinkering
> or due to storms. In the attached capture the station is labeled WM3
> since it's the third location for WM since I've been monitoring LF.
>
> Interesting WSPR signals overnight on 474.2 kHz. WH2XGP at times was
> very strong as local sunrise neared (up to -5 dB SNR) and not
> surprisingly a couple of stations seldom decoded came through (WI2XBQ
> and WI2XJQ). But BC stations weren't seen at that time although VE7CNF
> was in earlier. Perhaps they had already shut down for the night. The
> good signals on 474.2 kHz from the west didn't carry down to 75 kHz.
> Usually WH2XND decodes around local sunrise but this morning not a trace
> of signal was evident.
>
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
>
>
>
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