[Lowfer] I85.3 Action

[Andy Bell]

--- Peter Barick <pbarick at wpo.cso.niu.edu> wrote:

> Turning on the rig late afternoon I found the usual
> NDBs and saw EAR very bright on Argo. Didn't see
> usual MP on the 185 screen but a few Hertz lower was

> a broken up signal, Hmm? Later saw a weak looking 
> TAG. It was gone by 7PM.
> 

Hello Peter: That broken signal may have been traces
of " COV " in Coffeyville, Ok. on, or about, 185.298
I've been trying to snag him for months but no such
luck. I monitored the watering hole from 5:30pm EST on
Sun. until 6:30am Mon, with overnight captures, and
for the first time here, absolutely no signals at all.
I have been niticing that the signal strengths are
starting to weaken, and the noise floor is starting to
rise. In Nov/Dec. the noise floor at night was an S-3,
now the noise floor at night is between S-5 & S-7.
Must be the change of the seasons ???
A couple of other stations I've been trying to get are

" WMS " and " WEB " , no luck on them either.
73, all: Andy - KU4XR


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