[Lowfer] LF signals over night

[Garry Hess]

Started the evening around local sunset with nice WSJT-X decodes of 
WG2XJM on mode WJ9-10 running 50mW ERP at 494.4 kHz+1100 Hz on a 686 km 
path. Despite the big storm on the east coast, the lightning map at 
http://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/explorer.html was nearly empty and the 
noise floor here was pretty decent.

The last two nights spent a fair amount of time monitoring Navtex on 518 
kHz. This produced messages from 15 different stations (11 in region 4 
and 4 in region 12). Best catch was $04M in Simiutaq/Cape Farewell, 
Greenland at 1000Z, thanks to $04N Chesapeake, Virginia holding off 
transmission a few minutes and perhaps a propagation boost from storm 
Sandy. Other good catches were $12D Prince Rupert, BC at 0834Z and $12J 
Kodiak, AK at 0933Z.
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73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL