[Lowfer] Alien Invasion

[Mitch Powell]

John:
You do realize that it is a full moon tonight ?

Mitch
On 2011-11-09, at 9:01 PM, JD wrote:

> The mud hardened sufficiently this afternoon after our recent rains to drive 
> the four wheel radio shack out to the antenna.  Saw the usual suspects in 
> the middle of the day: MP and SIW on LF, plus MP, SIW, NC, and USC on HiFER. 
> All the HiFERs were strong enough to be clearly audible most of the time. 
> Didn't see WMS today at 185.3, however.
> 
> Most of the afternoon was pretty routine until about 3:18 PM CST, when a 
> strange visitor from another planet (or something) descended on MP at 137 
> kHz.  I looked at the signal with as many settings as I could try in another 
> instance of Argo, and never could get a handle on what it might be. 
> Eventually I got tired of that and went back to look at LowFER SIW, which 
> had an alien signal of its own for a while!
> 
> After about two hours, the one near MP also went away.  By then the sun was 
> very low, the moon was rising, and the temperature was plummeting in the 
> car.  I checked to make sure DCF77 was coming in, then tuned up to 162 kHz 
> and listened to some fine Motown music from France for a few minutes before 
> packing everything up.
> 
> John
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