[Lowfer] Lowfer SIW QRV

[Michael Sapp]

Garry:  QRSS signal detected here at -67 peak in ARGO on 185.2993. I will 
have a capture in an hour or so. It is evening transition time so hard to 
say what the propagation will do over the interval.  I spent the afternoon 
chasing gremlins out of the EWE antennas, there was an open RG6 line on the 
west side of the antennas and the NW transformer broke a solder joint on the 
circuit board to the stainless connector hardware... last week or so the 
system had not been showing correct F/B ratios......seems to be OK at the 
moment.

Also I raised the EWE antennas from about 15~20ft level to the 25 to 30 ft 
level about a week ago. EZNEC said is would have +3dB better F/B on 137 kHz 
so I had to give it a try....

Hopefully I have all the erratic issues resolved with the EWEs. I have been 
dropping elm tree limbs from the 50ft level with a rope saw  and I may have 
damaged the RG6 cable section under the grass to the west side of the EWEs 
with one of the limb section drops....

73 Mike wa3tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry" <k3siw at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lowfer list" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 4:55 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] Lowfer SIW QRV


> With the help of Bob, NK9M, I fired up lowfer SIW for the coming winter 
> season. As before, 2 frequencies are used: 185.2993 kHz on M,W,F and 
> 185.185 kHz on T,Th,Sa,Su. Switchover is at 1800Z. At least that's what's 
> intended. Because of the daylight/standard time shift it may be off an 
> hour. On the watering hole frequency the transmission sequence is QRSS30, 
> QRSS60, ... On the lowfer frequency 3 different transmission formats are 
> sent each hour: WSPR-15, QRSS25, then Opera32.