The Desert Whooper

[Teotwaki]

Since it's too late in the morning to hear this at home I checked it out on the KFS SE kiwi

4095.65 KHz  DW   S5 signal  BAT 14.0volts  oTMP  102deg  iTMP  110deg  PV  767 mAmps

I've been trying to catch it when the iTMP hits 120 as it did a year ago.

inside temp of the box hit 123 degrees at 1800 hrs PST!   

4095.65 KHz  DW   S6 signal  BAT 13.2volts  oTMP  109deg  iTMP  123deg  PV  203 mA

[Teotwaki]

I just caught DW's internal temp sitting at 120 degrees

[Teotwaki]

BAT 13.1volts  oTMP 95  iTMP 102  PV  1  good signal at home on the KX3  0322Z 1Aug2023

[Desert Whooper]

greetings from the DW team

All of your reports here have been read with great interest! We received a eQSL request from Italy! Quite the surprise.

A few months back we added a device to bleed off static charge from the antenna.

On October 27th we replaced the battery. Electrically it seemed healthy but it appears to have spit out some small amounts of acid from around the battery's terminals. With the shorter days the battery receives less charge so we want it to be in tip top shape.

Lately we've been kicking around ideas for wind measurement and it may be a new box but similar to DW

The DW Team

Our email address is at the beginning of this thread

[OK_Mike]

Hello, all...

I just received a nice eQSL for my reception of the Desert Whooper.

Thanks to the team!

OK Mike