[Lowfer] Checking In

[JD]

>>Thanks for HF report John. Thought I cut the coax with the lawnmower! 
>>Guess not!

Either it's OK, or the cut coax just happened to be the right length to make 
a very good radiator at 22 m! <g>

>>137 seems very stable here.

I imagine it is.  The static level on 137 kHz rose last night way out of 
proportion to the wavelength.  Granted, 185 was noisy enough, but not nearly 
as much as 137.  And when I tired of trying to imagine order out of the 
randomness on the Argo window and went to 495 kHz, I was expecting the worst 
there too, but was pleasantly surprised.  I wonder if the spectral 
distribution of noise from tropical storms is different from the storms that 
swirled around the edges of our hot high pressure dome all summer.

Haven't been out to the field to look today yet.  With daytime temperatures 
below 80 degrees F for the first time in months, I have opened up the house 
to be able to work on my long overdue buffer amplifier, soon to be inserted 
between my antenna and receiver to (hopefully) cure the impedance mismatch I 
have endured for so long, and to eventually allow me to run multiple 
receivers simultaneously.

John