[Lowfer] LowFER KE, Big Upgrade!

[John Andrews]

Garry,

The same was true last winter on 185.800, I believe. We should check as 
to whether the spur subscribes to this mail list, and anticipates my moves.

John, W1TAG

Thanks...and keep trying...


On 11/1/2021 8:20 AM, Garry wrote:
> 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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