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

[John Andrews]

JD,

The "snake" was very easy audible copy here late Sunday afternoon. Also 
had some rare copy of RY at 130 miles, and a signal from EH (even 
closer) that required ear protection and blinders. Odd propagation to 
catch those near-in signals. All of the rest you mentioned were fading 
in and out as usual.

John, W1TAG

On 6/11/2012 1:03 PM, JD wrote:
> 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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