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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #180 on: September 09, 2021, 0517 UTC »
That's great. Maybe 4 MHz propagation is starting to improve in that direction.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #181 on: September 14, 2021, 1038 UTC »
14 September 2021:
1036 UTC: Both the Desert Whooper and Windy coming in.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #182 on: September 15, 2021, 1049 UTC »
15 September 2021:
1048: Weak signals from both Windy and the Desert Whooper, but I'm listening a little later this morning.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #183 on: September 16, 2021, 1101 UTC »
16 September 2021:
1057: Weak signals from both Windy and the Desert Whooper, but again I'm listening a little later this morning.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #184 on: September 17, 2021, 1055 UTC »
17 September 2021:
1040: Good signals from both Windy and the Desert Whooper.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #185 on: September 20, 2021, 1027 UTC »
20 September 2021:
1025: Good signals from both Windy and the Desert Whooper.

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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #186 on: September 21, 2021, 1106 UTC »
21 September 2021:
1105: A good signal from the Desert Whooper, but starting to fade out for the day
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #187 on: September 22, 2021, 1119 UTC »
22 September 2021:
1045: Good signals from the Desert Whooper and Windy, also something weak around 4094, perhaps UFO?
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #188 on: September 23, 2021, 0949 UTC »
23 September 2021:
0930: Good signals from the Desert Whooper and Windy. At the radio a bit earlier this morning, let's see if anyone else turns up.

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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #189 on: September 23, 2021, 2301 UTC »
What antennas are you using Chris? Did you make up a special rig like you were considering earlier this year?

About time to hook up my loop again, now that most of the lightning is gonzo.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #190 on: September 24, 2021, 1033 UTC »
23 September 2021:
1030: Good signals as usual from the Desert Whooper and Windy.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #191 on: September 24, 2021, 1034 UTC »
What antennas are you using Chris? Did you make up a special rig like you were considering earlier this year?

About time to hook up my loop again, now that most of the lightning is gonzo.

Usually I am listening with the 900 ft sky loop antenna. I did make a large (7 ft x 7 ft) loop from 1 ft wide screening, an attempt at a very low inductance large loop, but was not really happy with the performance.  I think a long beverage aimed to the desert southwest might be useful, it's been on my to-do list for a while.
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #192 on: September 27, 2021, 1057 UTC »
27 September 2021:
1055: Good signals as usual from the Desert Whooper and Windy.

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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #193 on: September 29, 2021, 1107 UTC »
29 September 2021:
SFI suddenly appeared at 1103 UTC. Windy and the Desert Whooper are weak this morning.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2021, 1104 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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Re: Mid Atlantic Beacon Loggings
« Reply #194 on: September 30, 2021, 1103 UTC »
30 September 2021:
SFI appeared here suddenly at 1101 UTC, I was already receiving the Desert Whooper for some time.

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I also had a very weak signal just around 4094.1 kHz around 1100 UTC.

Now (1215 UTC) checking the WO7I KiwiSDR in NV, I noticed it is present there, though weak (I could not find it on a bunch of other SW USA KiwiSDRs I tried). This KiwiSDR also has a good signal from SFI. 
 
It's sending a series of dots. Now some sort of ID at 1220 UTC.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2021, 1220 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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