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

[John Hamer]

Andy,

I believe I have everything working now. My poor transmitter has had too
many modifications over the years. Hopefully I will get time to build a new
one soon. Thanks for the report.

Regards,
John Hamer

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 6:52 PM John Hamer <wilbur0611 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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