[Lowfer] Watering hole "threefer"

[N8OOU]

Thanks for the reports Garry. The beacons seem to be doing really well 
for this early in the season. My environment is really dry, like a lot 
of North America. Leaves are down on the typical trees and I would 
expect the juices in the trees have relocated to their roots.

A short update on this years power setup is that so far the Hifer is 
fully recharging within the daylight hours, even on cloudy/rainy days.

I corrected a couple issues on the Lowfer configuration, as well as 
swapping to a battery with larger capacity. On a typical day the battery 
gets fully recharged. On a couple rain/cloudy days, a significant charge 
was put back in the battery, but it didn't fully recharge until a full 
day of sun. I should have about 6 days of run time with no sunshine.

One unknown factor yet is the impact of cold temps as both beacons 
operate in un-heated, metal buildings.

73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek

On 11/11/24 09:26, Garry wrote:
> Tuned the VE3HOA kiwisdr to the watering hole over night and with ARGO 
> at QRSS30 found TAG, WM, and SIW. TAG of course was strong from over 300 
> mi; WM and SIW were weak from over 600 mi. A nuisance spur was in there 
> too just above WM.
> 
> LF NDB reception continues to improve with KT on 238 kHz coming through 
> from New Zealand over a 6492 mi path to the KPH kiwisdr receiver in 
> California.
> 
> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
> 
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