[Lowfer] MP 137 kHz

[JD]

MP, the undisputed 2200 m powerhouse at this location during months with an 
"r" in them, had been absent for about 60 or 70 days now.  Propagation has 
been poor in the (comparatively quiet) daytime, while static levels have 
been consistently high at night.  Given the dreadful mismatch between my 
antenna and receiver, it's a miracle if anyone's signal gets up to S2-1/2 at 
best, so even when storms are 100 or more miles distant and the noise is 
"only" S9, that has been way too much difference for me to extract anything 
with Argo.  I've never been able to identify a signal that was more than 3 
or 4 S-units below impulse noise.

Until last night, that is.  Even though the timing of the dashes matches 
what I normally see from MP, it's not a very clear ID and could have just 
been wishful thinking on my part.  I was reluctant to believe this was 
actually what it appeared to be, until Mitch confirmed for me today that his 
DDS had indeed been running a few tenths of a Hz high since a recent power 
dropout.

That kind of made it worthwhile fighting the giant killer vampire mosquitos 
that were chainsawing their way through the screening over the car windows 
last night.

John D. 
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