[Lowfer] TA A-OK in KS

[JD]

I don't know where the S9+ static crashes were coming from overnight. 
Still, not a bad way to ring out the old year!

At 10 pm CST, I started out with JJY, HBG, and DCF77 all about the same 
level, a little over S9.  My first target was LowFER SJ, but I had no luck 
there after about an hour.  Thought I'd try for EAR, but the LWBC sidebands 
were overwhelming.  France Inter, Europe 1, and Iceland were each S9+15 to 
20.  (Who knew there were such things as contemporary psychedelic music and 
heavy metal in Icelandic?)

Figured I'd tune down to 136.170 (=800 Hz) to see what there was to see, and 
it turned out to be the attached.  After such a clear "M0BM" I don't know 
where the "U" went.  And I don't know why the "C" in DK7FC was never quite 
complete, but after while there were plenty of "KEV" around.  Between the 
two captures shown here, there was one rather strong (dogboned) letter "O" 
right on 136.170, but nothing else appeared there the rest of the time I was 
watching.

After about 2:30, I wasn't seeing much out of Europe or the UK, so I went 
back to looking for SJ.  Caught what might have been Sal's signal for a 
while, but it was never clear and it faded out by 3 AM, leaving me only a 
couple of PLCs.  By the time I re-awoke just before 6 AM, the computer had 
powered itself down and it was in the upper 30s (F) inside the car as well 
as out, and every bone and joint has been complaining since then (which is 
why it took so long to stitch the captures together and type this).  Still, 
it was a pretty rewarding night.

John

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