[Lowfer] LF 02 Dec.
Bob Raide
rjraide at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 3 00:33:58 EST 2013
JD;
Am on 137.53-OP32/OPDS32 for tonight. HF bands have been poor and the OPDS mode can detect some pretty weak signals-Bob
From: listread at lwca.org
To: lowfer at mailman.qth.net
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 23:29:29 -0600
Subject: [Lowfer] LF 02 Dec.
After a fairly successful afternoon of HiFERing (USC for the first time in
two weeks, both SIWs until about 3:49 PM CST, EH, MP, EDJ and NC visible;
plus MTI audible at times; everyone else conspicuous by their absence) I
tuned to 137.78 right at 5 PM to see how MP was doing and got one solid dash
underway. I went outside to take advantage of an unusually long and pretty
twilight for this time of year, and when I went back in, I discovered that
single dash was the last thing thing captured for several minutes. Faint
traces of something unidentifiable appeared briefly about 20 minutes later,
but nothing more.
At half past the hour, I took a chance and tuned to 74.55. Watched a blank
screen for 45 or 50 minutes, then went back to 137.78. Blank there too, but
eventually a faint dot appeared, then a less faint dash, and so on.
Finally, by 7:15 PM CST, MP was reaching its typical strength. If that was
a fade at 5:00, it was more abrupt, deeper, and a lot longer lasting than
I've previously encountered with MP around sunset.
Wanted to try for WI, J, and/or MLS tonight. Static was up about 2 units
from last night all over LF, however, to levels where I never hear any 1750
m LowFERs. So, I abandoned the chase for this evening.
John
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