[Lowfer] lowfer's 12-7-20 in TN

[John Hamer]

Andy,

I made some changes to the transmitter last night and created some
oscillator instabilities. I'm working on fixing it now, so it will
hopefully be back on tonight.

John Hamer
Lowfer JH

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 6:45 PM Andy - KU4XR via Lowfer <
lowfer at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> as usual, I tinker with my antenna configuration for fun. Last night, I
> saw SJ in the watering hole as most others did.
> WM and SIW visible with all 3 showing what has become an almost nightly
> fade at 3 am EST (8 UTC). EAR also fades
> around the same time, and many times does not show back up until just
> before sunrise here, as was the case last night.
> I received a 1 line decode from TAG with many frequency locks. JH was
> interesting, I didn't pay particular attention to
> the times, but the signal disappeared for a while, to later return about 1
> cycle higher in frequency around 181.819.5~,
> it has slowly lowered in frequency through the day, and as of this post,
> is at 181.819.28 KHz.
> The most interesting occurrence today was seeing the 3 minute portions of
> JH signal through the afternoon, as well as
> WM... I have not been able to see JH during daytime this season. Not
> willing to accept that my antenna tinkering made
> the big a difference ( gee, what you can learn from experience ), I
> thought I would see what solar activity might be occurring.
> I found that a solar flare had indeed happened a bit earlier and I will
> attribute my afternoon reception to that event.
> A little stirring of the " sphere's " goes a long way. Things got back to
> " normal " for here around 3:30 pm (20:30 UTC) with
> all signals disappearing, and WM, and EAR just starting to show up a bit
> after sunset.
>
> 73 all:
> Andy, KU4XR EM75xr
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