Laurence Camped out on XDW's frequency last night...no joy. Jay Rusgrove, W1VD Rogue carrier - actually not rogue - can anyone in Eu see a carrier centered on 137,7748 with, possibly a fsk/psk conten
Ive got home and found the tuning has changed "quite a bit" - the trees are now bare, but the beacon had been running around 3-3.5A aerial current over the last 10 days or so Ive just shut down the b
Just Back home in Alaksa after spending an upplaned overnighter in Utah. Loading coil is unreachable - buried in 6 foot drift between house and stables. It will take me all of tmw to dig out to get t
Wd2XDW +24 hrs "XDW" 137.7752 qrss 60/cw id with 2:1 dash/dot ratio from 1837 utc Tuesday. Thanks to all for the mode/freq comments. Laurence KL1X/5 Bartlesville OK 90F and sunny. ___________________
Was off from 0000z until 0300z - Ive put another loop up in the same place and paralleled them up. The second loop is 700 wire litz and have a metre seperation in some parts of the loop - how this st
Back on normal channel at 0400Z 137.7752 qrss60 200w input - was doing ground wave checks out in the van today and move some Hz LF to clear Erics signal from mine - drove to Kansas City Mo (Costco wi
XDW now dual freq cw - High (dash) 137.7755(ish) and Low (dot) 137,7752, 60 sec elements I may bring the High freq down a tweak later... Laurence kl1x/5 - wd2xdw _____________________________________
Mike thanks for the report and the snap..nice conditions over the Pacific tonite Im using two sig gens to produce the high and low, and switched via relays driven from the serial port - the low is GP
WD2XDW mode change from 0150z monday - now dfcw120 hi low hi low, 137,7752, 137,7756 cw id at and location @ 12 wpm at beginning and end of sequence. 1Kw into a droopy wet loop. Im keeping the tx on
Thanks Mike - the beacon has been on "auto" for the past 7 days or so - when I got back from near the Mex border this evening Sunday 13th Feb the Tx is down 0.75dB from "max" - probably a shift of th
XDW was good copy last night from 0900 till 1215utc. The signal was readable even with 30 second dot settings for much of that time. No other signals were seen except for possible traces just above 1
Thanks Mike - dont think we would have seen propagation with the short nights coming in fast. Must be due to "enhanced squirrel propagation" I had eight (8) sitting on the horizontal section of the l
Time to pull some 10ga wire in the wall... Mike Thanks Mike - dont think we would have seen propagation with the short nights coming in fast. Must be due to "enhanced squirrel propagation" I had eigh