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Thank-you for the kind words, Markus. The RX will be ready again
tonight watching on 136.1705 to 136.1736 kHz for you and the gang
with the 'barefoot' FT-817, tuned 100m wire and Argo.

73 & GL
Joe VO1NA

On Sun, 13 Apr 2014, Markus Vester wrote:

> Joe,
>
> that's a beautiful Argo screenshot! Glad to see both Andy and Alex in there, along with Stefan and myself.
>
> Jay had also posted a good spectrogram on the W1VD grabber site, but the background noise / QRN was apparently significantly worse than the night before.
>
> Looks like the weather is still antenna-friendly, so I might as well get on again tonight (if only for continuity ;-)
>
> Best 73,
> Markus (DF6NM)
>
> PS: Stefan, skies = heavens above ;-)
>
>
> From: jcraig@mun.ca
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 2:43 PM
> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
> Subject: Re: LF: 136 kHz TA
>
>
>
> Despite the high K and A indices, UW8SM, DK7FC, DF6NM and R7NT were copied
> here last night.  This is most gratifying -- it reminds me of the 'good
> old days' when the band is active like this.
>
> For RX, the 100m wire (usual TX aerial) was used.  It has 2 mH of series
> inductance.  The RX was the FT-817 without the external (35dB) preamp.
> IPO was engaged (to remove the internal preamp) and the AGG was off.
>
> 73 to all
> Joe VO1NA