[Lowfer] Lowfer MO

[Andy - KU4XR]

--- On Sun, 2/3/13, Garry Hess <k3siw at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Lowfer MO made a weak appearance last night around 0400Z 
> with two call sequences noted : MO should have a great 
> signal when it's finalized.
> -- 73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL
>_______________________________________________________________

Reception here for the past few days has been very poor.. 
I looked for " MO " overnight, and for a period just before
sunrise was seeing a very broken up carrier trace.., not enough
to ID a character.. I have been noticing a steady drop in copy
of ALL the lowFER signals recently.. Not sure why.. I have once
again become plagued with powerline buzzzzzzzz.. With all the
high wind, and recent storms; the power grid is again arc-ing.
The noise is again back to 15 dB over S-9.. I can usually see
" EAR " during the day, but not now, and " MP " is broken up
badly.. Unfortunately, I am surrounded on all sides with 
powerlines, and live in a residential / commercial neighborhood,
so when the noise gets bad - -  It gets " realllly " bad..
The only signal seen in the watering hole last night was a
very frequency erratic " SJ " moving around quite noticably,
and it was being clobbered by noise too.. Side note: The LWBC
stations are dropping in strength too.. 

73 all:

Andy - KU4XR