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

[W4DEX]

Best reception for LowFer beacon NC was by VE7SL at 2,360 miles on 04 JAN
2002.

Steve was using a 10ft loop:   https://qsl.net/ve7sl/loop.html

Second best was by     Steven Brooks   Avondale, Arizona  820 miles 15 Dec
02.

LF noise here is so much worse than it was years ago I've only got a few
hits on TAG recently.

Dex

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 8:06 PM jrusgrove at comcast.net <jrusgrove at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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>
> Reply-To: Discussion of the Lowfer \(US, European, & UK\) and MedFer bands
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> To: <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> 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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