[Lowfer] storm damage

[Douglas D. Williams]

Also set ARGO to listen for EAR before I left for work and was rewarded by
one successful screen capture before sunrise.

Doug KB4OER

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Douglas D. Williams <kb4oer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
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> Doug KB4OER
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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:55 AM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:
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>>  Best I can tell WMS is still on.
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>> Have no fear, it's booming in here! :)
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>> ...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!
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>> 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.
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>> John
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