[Lowfer] TAG WOLFing

[John Andrews]

Jon,

Good to hear from you! The copy you had was excellent -- I also get a 
better signal here at night than in the day, so not surprising. The WOLF 
signal is pretty much right on 185.800, so now you know that your 
receiver is about 0.33Hz off. Not a problem for copy, though, and 
nothing to be gained in weak signal copy by putting in the offset.

Doing a little WES work today, but my antenna is in rough shape, so 
nothing great is expected.

John, W1TAG

On 11/7/2020 8:49 AM, JJ via Lowfer wrote:
> OK, I jumped on the bandwagon.  It's been a while since I did any Lowfer 
> listening so it was good to fire things up.
> I tried yesterday late afternoon using my Anan Angelia SDR and 300' or 
> so vertical loop situated E/W.  Nada.  I did finally copy after 
> nightfall.  I believe it was at t: 480.
> Tried again this morning with the same setup, nada.
> I fed my 200' Doublet fed with 300 ohm ladder directly to the Angelia 
> and received TAG @ t. 288 but maybe a fragment at t. 192.
> Thank you, John for proving the signal.  Good job.
> 73,
> Jon WS1K
> 
> 2020-11-07 13:23:33 >WOLF10  -r 8000 -f 800 -t 1.0 -w 0.0000
> t:  24 f:-0.997 a:-1.3 dp: 57.8 ci:12 cj:239 . /WROS6W153LO0 ?
> t:  48 f: 0.088 a:-0.2 dp: 55.5 ci:12 cj:343 SSR2UF*LC8WJIEB ?
> t:  96 f:-0.048 a: 1.2 dp: 51.4 ci:13 cj:100 JE/H96THQMV QG. -
> t: 192 f: 0.332 pm:2.026 jm:755 q: -5.0 -6.6 JZEIV0S6MND ME  ?
> t: 288 f: 0.332 pm:3.136 jm:755 q: -3.4 -5.6 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 384 f: 0.332 pm:3.949 jm:755 q: -2.3 -3.2 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 480 f: 0.332 pm:5.980 jm:755 q: -1.7 -1.7 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 576 f: 0.332 pm:7.129 jm:755 q: -0.4 -0.3 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 672 f: 0.332 pm:7.934 jm:755 q:  0.2  0.4 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 768 f: 0.332 pm:9.279 jm:755 q:  0.9  0.7 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> t: 864 f: 0.332 pm:9.851 jm:755 q:  1.4  1.2 TAG RAYMOND ME  -
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/24/2020 3:23 PM, John Andrews wrote:
>> Lowfer TAG on 185.800 kHz from Raymond, ME is on the air in WOLF mode. 
>> I may need to play with it some more, but it should basically be on 
>> the air for the winter (unless Mother Nature intervenes).
>>
>> Good news/bad news: The WOLF part of the equation appears to be 
>> running solidly, with the transmitter within 0.01 Hz of 185.800, and 
>> the keying timing is close to perfect. The bad news is that I gave up 
>> some efficiency by using #12 wire for the loop antenna. If this new 
>> setup survives the winter, I will try putting up the old RG-8 next 
>> year, and using the shield as the antenna conductor. That stuff is 
>> pretty heavy, and the big pine that holds up one corner is right on 
>> the lake edge, and sways a lot in the breezes.
>>
>> My guess is that this will be a dead-of-winter thing for those outside 
>> of New England, but radio is full of surprises. Reports are always 
>> welcome.
>>
>> For those new to WOLF, the program remains available at:
>> https://www.qsl.net/d/dl4yhf/wolf/index.html
>> I can offer advice on determining your actual receiver frequency and 
>> your computer's sound-card sampling rate. For the folks who were 
>> successful with EbNaut, this ought to be duck soup.
>>
>> John, W1TAG
> 
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