[Lowfer] 185.3 Tonight

[Pat Bunn]

John

That signal is the first replacement "pulled" as far as I could move it which made the available shift low. I have two oscillators due here early next week and hope to get it permanently fixed.

Pat Bunn
USC

N4LTA

JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

>Lightning from Montana, Wyoming, and the eastern Gulf tonight gave me static 
>crashes ranging from S7 to above S9, but at least it wasn't a continuous 
>roar like the last time I tried listening in the field earlier in the week.
>
>Only saw SIW (attached) at the 1750 m watering hole...no sign of WMS, which 
>is unusual.
>
>Surprisingly, elsewhere down the dial, DCF77 was the loudest I've heard it 
>in ages.  In the short breaks between static, I could determine that it was 
>nudging the S-meter by more than two units when it keyed to full carrier. 
>That was about 10:40 PM CDT.
>
>Had an interesting evening on 22 meters as well, after sunset.  HiFER MP was 
>nice and clear, and so was USC on its newest oscillator--but only shifting 
>frequency about half as much as before.  It might be a bit hard to read if 
>there were static or codar to contend with.  EH was excellent, as was NC. 
>Also could visually read the SIW slant mode, even though the level was too 
>low for the QRSS version to be distinguished at all.  I'll put a capture or 
>two from HF on the LW Message Board tomorrow.
>
>John 
>
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