[Lowfer] 500 kHz

[JD]

I didn't spend as much of the night at 600 m as Garry did, but I did catch 
WE2XGR/6, 499.5 kHz, WSPR (spectrum attached; even in the presence of S9 
static in a 270 Hz bandwidth, the S9+ signal occupying less than 10 Hz of 
that BW should not have been any challenge to decode halfway across the 
continent, had I tried...there was a rather deep fade for several minutes 
beginning about 0356, but levels recovered later);  WD2XSH/6, 508.8 kHz, CW 
(I'd hate to be the first report of interference from this operation...it 
was mutual interference between /6 and the lower sideband of NDB OF, making 
it very hard to hear either clearly); WD2XSH/7, 476.3 kHz, both CW speeds 
and PSK31 (the only signal stronger than Bob's).  Thought I saw QRSS on 
495.02, but couldn't identify it.

For some reason, the static down at 185 and 137 got worse here as the 
evening progressed toward midnight, so that's when I gave up.  In the 
earlier part of the evening, I had both MP and NA at 137 until about 0241, 
when somebody turned off the switch to Newfoundland.  A few traces of signal 
showed up later, but never enough to copy again, so it was only Mitch 
thereafter.

Saw some traces of what should have been SIW and maybe WMS at 185.3, but not 
enough for positive ID.

John 
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