[Lowfer] LowFER KE, Big Upgrade!

[Garry]

Andy's good report of KE reception spurred me to take a look last night. 
It paid off as around 0600Z a signal began appearing on ARGO at QRSS60, 
slow. It peaked near 0630Z when the callsign came through once. Went off 
then to look for TAG. Saw plenty of indications of signal on 185.302 kHz 
but don't think it was TAG. Instead, there is a spurious that falls 
exactly on that frequency.  Tuned back for KE before local sunrise 
hoping to see a peak like Andy reported but that didn't happen. Overall 
not bad given the 996 km path, but if a variometer isn't being used to 
perfectly resonate the antenna there's still room for improvement.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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