[Lowfer] Lowfer TAG on the air

[John Andrews]

Gedas,

Thanks for the report. It's early. I'm copying TAG "OK" at 130 miles -- 
pretty much what I remember from last year. It'll get a lot better in 
the next month or so.

John, W1TAG

On 10/17/2025 2:58 PM, Gedas V wrote:
> Same here. No signs of TAG yet but then last night was horrible LF
> propagation. All LWBC signals were down about 20 dB. Will monitor again
> tonight.  BTW, WM during the day is coming in 5x9 !  Rock solid with zero
> noise.....a wonderful ground wave signal. Neat to see it fade away after
> sunset and come back just after sunrise. 73 Gedas W8BYA EN70JT
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM Garry <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John, thanks for bringing lowfer TAG back up. Haven't noticed
>> anything at my new QTH yet but know it's running because it comes
>> through using the Rockport, ME kiwisdr. The path is only 73.4 mi so it
>> should be stronger but the loop null is probably impacting copy. Also,
>> the timeout is way too short, only about 10 minutes. The frequency is
>> wrong in the attached ARGO capture because the scale slipped when
>> refreshing. It is 185.302 kHz like you mentioned.
>>
>> The K1VL kiwisdr in the past has provided better copy over a 119.1 mi
>> path but today its copy is nil. There are plenty of other kiwisdr
>> receivers available via http://kiwisdr.com/.public/ but unfortunately
>> hardly any of them hear decently at LF.
>> --
>> 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52tb, Elgin,
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