[Lowfer] storm damage

[Douglas D. Williams]

Last night proved to be a good night for SIW, coming in better than usual.
WM was there, but not as strong as a week or so ago. WMS there also.

Doug KB4OER

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33457409/185300Hz%283%29.jpg




On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:55 AM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> Best I can tell WMS is still on.
>>>>
>>>
> Have no fear, it's booming in here! :)
>
> ...along with fair reception of SIW and traces of WM, for that matter.
>  The curvature is due to the impromptu nature of this listening session,
> which meant the receiver wasn't fully warmed up when I got to the field.  I
> hadn't done any monitoring for a week, spending all my time working on
> Lowdown material.  Now that I'm done with it, I was going to turn in early
> tonight until I read your message, Paul.  Those looked like mighty rough
> storms on radar yesterday night!
>
> As soon as I got to the field I remembered to undo the shorting hook.  So,
> it was a considerable shock to find _nothing_ on 60 kHz but sferics.  Tuned
> up to 77.5 quickly--nothing.  Some of the FSK signals were still present,
> though, so I tuned around some more.  There was JJY on 40 kHz just fine,
> and my reference NDBs all seemed normal, so I decided it wasn't the antenna
> or radio...but there was nothing at all to be heard from Europe on LF, and
> apparently WWVB was off for maintenance right then.  Had me spooked for a
> little while.
>
> John
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