[Lowfer] Testing tonight

[Lyle Koehler]

>At what time did you see the big drop in Mike's signal?

The biggest and fastest variation happened at about 0110 CST, but there were
many other peaks and fades during the night. Mike's signal didn't really
settle down until about 0845, which is an hour after local sunrise.

More experiments I should try:

1. Put BRO and RM in a null of my receiving loop and see if they show the
same wild fluctuations in signal strength. I expect that they will.

2. Orient my receiving loop broadside to Mike, so that theoretically the
surface-wave component is nulled out. Then I should see primarily the
skywave component. Will it be more stable because now we're not affected by
phase cancellations between the surface wave and skywave, or is the skywave
amplitude varying rapidly as well? I'm not sure on that one.

More to follow.

Lyle