[Lowfer] 137 kHz activity

[Garry Hess]

Todd, the staircase source didn't really look different to me compared 
to the previous evening. This time I copied two full up-down cycles, 
then after the third "up" the signal faded into my QRSS30 noise floor. 
Think that was more likely due to lowering of the transmit power rather 
than propagation because Warren's signal was strong throughout. Looks to 
me like the frequency steps are about 30 seconds in duration with 
something near 3 minutes spent at the high and low frequencies. I've had 
trouble with my loop so have been using an omni-directional e-probe. If 
I spot the signal again I'll try to find it's direction with the loop.

It was a pretty noisy night for monitoring but propagation must have 
been decent since I got Navtex decodes from Greenland to Alaska. The 3 
US west coast stations were in there but no BC Canadians. That's usual 
because other stations transmit well past their assigned time slots. On 
the other hand, this morning MP and EAR are weaker than normal, with MP 
drifted slightly higher in frequency.

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL