[Lowfer] Ellsworth and Andover WMs in NE Illinois

[Bill Ashlock]

Thanks for your efforts, Garry. Good to know we are making it to the mid-west. Hope to have some modulation on my Andover beacon, tonight. Think I'm even seeing it on the Grabulator right now (2:30 pm), but can't be sure as it's a very weak straight line. There's a strong line right now at 185.3007 or so, but I just proved, by lowering my frequency, that it's not me.

 

Bill
 
> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:32:29 -0500
> From: k3siw at sbcglobal.net
> To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Lowfer] Ellsworth and Andover WMs in NE Illinois
> 
> Bill and other lowfer listeners,
> 
> I ran ARGO over night beginning around 0800Z, 3/19/09 on automatic, mode 
> QRSS-30 slow, centered on 185.3 kHz. Conditions to the NE from Illinois 
> were decently quiet by then and Elmira, NY NDB "ALP" on 245 kHz had been 
> logged earlier. I looked at the captures this morning and, even though 
> no Ws or Ms were certain, a carrier at 185.300.5 kHz was definitely 
> present at times on each of the four captures made (the last was taken 
> at 1125Z). The carrier peaked somewhat weaker than beacon CV, which 
> comes in from the opposite direction to my shielded 10' loop antenna. Of 
> course beacon MP was stronger yet. I'll send capture images from 
> 3/17/09, when the carrier is absent, and 3/19/09 when it's present to 
> your personal email address.
> 
> 73,
> Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
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