[Lowfer] MP 137 kHz

[John Andrews]

JD,

The 2200M version of MP was nice copy day and night at our Maine QTH 
last week. Mitch's frequency was pretty much spot-on at the time.

JA

On 8/17/2011 5:49 PM, JD wrote:
> 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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