[Lowfer] Thursday Night LF in SE KS

[Mitch Powell]

Thanks for the effort - and the capture John.
That little clipper circuit certainly works well.
 73
Mitch
On 2013-04-05, at 1:33 PM, JD wrote:

> Encouraged by the views of DK7FC on Jay's grabber yesterday evening, I went 
> back out to the field at 11 PM CDT, but found static to be a continuous S9 
> roar in 270 Hz bandwidth.  Eventually I gave up and took a look for MP, who 
> was struggling to make it through the noise as well.  I tried the slow 
> AGC/heavy clipping approach that worked well last weekend, but the noise 
> last night was not as widely varying in level as it was then, so I ended up 
> getting better results with the usual fast AGC and heavy clipping.  Both 
> approaches are shown in this capture.
> 
> I also looked at 1750 m, particularly for MO as I had not seen it during my 
> afternoon session yesterday (though WMS and SIW were adequately present in 
> the afternoon).  It does not appear to have been on last night, either. 
> Noise was one S-unit lower and not as continuous at 185+, so given MO's 
> usual strength, I figure I probably should have been able to see it.  No go, 
> no MO, though.
> 
> John 
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