[Lowfer] LEK frequency of the day

[Lyle Koehler]

Thanks for posting the captures, Mitch.

Strange things were happening last night while I was monitoring 185.3. The
receiver was operating at full gain so that I could watch for other signals
during the LEK silent intervals. WE disappeared abruptly and completely at a
little after 2100 local time yesterday, and came back just as abruptly at
about 11 PM. Mike claims that his beacon was running during that time, but
it's hard to believe that a ground-wave signal from 75 miles away could
disappear like that. TMO was visible during much of that time, so my
receiver was working. TMO and WA were in and out during the night, and
didn't disappear until after sunrise. IP was barely visible most of the
night, but peaked nicely at about 0600 local time. I have several QRM
signals in this frequency range, and one of them is right on top of VD --
can't tell if he was in there or not. Of course all of the signals were
chopped up by my own transmissions, so I don't have any "clean" captures to
publish.

Lyle, K0LR