[Lowfer] lowFERs on 10-29-20

[John Andrews]

Garry,

I can confirm that it's on the air, and probably weaker here at 135 
miles than it used to be. The wire change that Jay mentioned could mean 
4-5 dB, depending on the health of that very old RG-8 braid used 
earlier. I was unsure of the health of one treetops involved in 
supporting the thing, and decided to use the #12 wire this winter.

Maybe the winter will be kind to your efforts.

John, W1TAG

On 10/30/2020 6:17 PM, Garry wrote:
> Andy, thanks for looking. Sorry I can't slow the ramp speed down more in 
> for the visual callsign. Maybe one of these days I'll get a newer 
> Ultimate3S with more control.
> 
> I've been looking for TAG also with not even a hint of decode. Strange 
> since years ago it came through even in September. I did learn that the 
> very old wolf gui code can have issues when run on a Windows 7 PC. When 
> I ran it to measure the frequency on one of my PCs the result jumped all 
> over the place. The source was a GPS-locked SLM thanks to W1VD and the 
> signal was solid on Spectrum Laboratory. I found that if I ran the 
> program with administrator privileges the frequency measurement was 
> stable. I also found it worked fine when run as a regular user but with 
> compatibility mode set to Windows XP, SP2. That's what my PC was years 
> ago. Just in case there was still an issue with Windows 7 I ran last 
> night using my old Windows XP laptop. Same result - f=0.000 solidly when 
> calibrating but no hint of decode even integrating over 32 96-second 
> periods. I do currently have a weak spur up several Hz from 185.8 kHz 
> but don't see why that should matter.