[Lowfer] HiFERs Sunday--Whose Saw Do I See?

[JD]

LF was a roar of static from early afternoon onward, but mid-eafternoon to 
early evening yesterday were fairly good on 22 meters.  Visible at the 
watering hole were (in ascending order) MP, USC, RY, SIW (QRSS), EH and NC. 
The larger capture is two simultaneous Argo instances aligned in time and 
frequency and stitched together, with the frequency scale adjusted for 800 
Hz = 13,555.400 kHz to the nearest Hz.

At the time of this capture, RY wasn't coming in as well as it had been 
earlier in the afternoon, nor as well as it did again later in the evening. 
RY and SIW seemed to have the most problem with fades today, and MP was 
close behind in that department. RY tended to be gone for several ID cycles 
at a time, while SIW would be fine for a letter or two at a time, then miss 
one or two. MP was experiencing shorter period fades, never gone for an 
entire character but often missing a dot or experiencing a chopped dash.

During this capture, though, there was one audible CW ID of MP (toward the 
left), and a couple audible IDs of SIW, including one particularly good one 
at the right. EH and USC were generally the strongest all afternoon and 
evening, frequently audible and producing beat notes between them and 
occassionally the other stations too.

Conspicuous by its absence today was the slow sawtooth ramp from SIW just 
above the QRSS SIW signal. However, there was a newcomer! Anybody want to 
claim it?  While tuning upward from the watering hole to listen for the 
conventional CW HiFERs, I ran across another audible signal--the one at 
lower right. I watched it for a couple of screenfuls with relatively little 
level fluctuation, then tuned away to listen to my other targets. When I 
returned in a little less than an hour, though, it was gone.

Tuning for conventional CW beacons, I heard AJO briefly around 6:47 PM 
before a steady carrier showed up in the immediate vicinity. Same problem 
plagued NDB's frequency. GNK was nice and clear for several ID cycles at a 
time, then gone for a while, then nice and clear again. No FRC today. Later, 
around 7:10 PM, I tried AJO again; miscellaneous QRM, but at least the DAID 
showed up on Argo. Unlike last weekend, I had no copy at all on WV this 
time.

John
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