[Lowfer] Good pre-sunrise conditions to the west of IL

[Douglas D. Williams]

I enjoy reading your reports John. ;-)

D.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:17 PM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Out here in Kansas, I went out to the field before daybreak, mainly to see
> if my traditional pre-sunrise fade from the northeast also affects the Part
> 5 stations on 600m.  It usually begins 90 minutes before the sun appears
> and
> lasts for about 90 minutes after, and I began listening this morning just
> over an hour prior to sunrise.  Sure enough, nobody was visible on LF or HF
> at all, and it didn't appear as if anyone was on MF at first glance.  When
> I
> checked back a little later, though, WD2XSH/7 was booming in!  The signal
> stayed with me until about 15 minutes before the sun appeared, then took a
> big dip in level.  I could no longer hear the conventional speed CW ID at
> all, and had to raise the Argo sensitivity to see the QRSS solidly.
>
> The signal strength partially returned about half an hour later.  But by
> then the temperature was seriously rising, too, and a hawk was expressing
> her irritation at my being parked in the middle of her morning hunting
> ground; so I returned to town.  Everybody gets irritable in this kind of
> heat, I guess.
>
> John
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