[Lowfer] [HiFER] Results: RY, HI, YEN

[Peter Barick]

Had some fun over the weekend w/ HiFER listening. Captured a few on
Argo and even heard some!

Thanks to Mitch for checking and correcting my arithmetic for the rx
offset. It was my confusion of seeing 13.555 as MHZ or 13555 as KHz.
Yes, it makes a difference, that decimal point.

So once I was in HiFER ballpark using a Drake R8 and NE-SW extended 20M
dipole at 30 feet up, I started to see Argo light up.

Saturday --
RY: This was the first one at 0340Z Friday. Again Sat. 1200-1300Z. Only
parts were showing at 1500Z. Vy strong at 0110Z, 8PM.

HI: This was odd. I was looking for YEN, just above HI's spot by 160Hz,
when I start hearing code of HI., seemed about 5wpm but I could not find
a display. The code lasted only about 1 minute.

Sunday --
RY: A weak sig 1145Z, 6:45A. At 0109Z some dogbones and an audible
signal is heard.

YEN: see traces at 1540Z. Better at 2240Z. Strong sig at 0134Z.

Overall, unlike LowFER, the sigs on 13.555 don't hang around that long
and fading in a character group is common even at 3wpm. But the nice
thing is that the displays happen faster than at QRSS30. It seems the
hours around dusk to just after support good signals.

MP: Unable to see anything from Mitch.

Problem: Still not able to set the rx on a given freq and then see the
signal when a signal is present. I have to offset the rx or move the
Argo scale and "find" it. I'd like to get a better handle on correcting
that. That's how I saw the first one, by looking for MP but seeing RY 42
Hz below.

Peter, Sycamore IL (N IL), EN51