[Lowfer] Wonderful Night - SJ, TAG, & WM

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Best lowfer DX here was WEB in TX ... received many times on QRSS30 / QRSS60 
... at just under 1500 miles.

Jay W1VD
.



----- Original Message -----
From: Bill de Carle <bill at ve2iq.ca>
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Sent: 12/23/2023 4:30:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Wonderful Night - SJ, TAG, & WM


I copied Bill Cantrell's signal at my Quebec QTH on New Year's Day 2000 
on 189.700 kHz, using BPSK MS100.  Bill had a rubidium standard and I 
used an OCXO.  WOLF was more tolerant of frequency errors.  I calculate 
the distance as 1514 miles, so you beat me by 18 miles!
Bill VE2IQ

On 2023-12-23 3:04 p.m., John Andrews wrote:
> Gedas,
>
> Distance from you to SJ in Connecticut is 647 miles. Distance to TAG 
> in Maine is 786 miles.
>
> That 1 hour before sunrise thing does work best for most of us.
>
> Just to make you feel bad, my best DX for receiving a Lowfer here in 
> Massachusetts was Bill 
Cantrell's TX beacon in March, 2001. He was 
> running in the WOLF mode, which should be similar in weak-signal 
> handling to QRSS60, but with more throughput. I received his "TEXAS 
> AGGIE 79" message between 0800 and 0830 UTC, a few hours before my 
> sunrise. Distance was 1532 miles. That was after days of processing 
> overnight recordings of Bill, playing with adjusting parameters that 
> we didn't 
have nailed down. Seemed like magic at the time.
>
> John, W1TAG
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