[Lowfer] Daytime 137 Tests Wednesday?

[JD]

Picture update:  None of my 136 kHz captures today apparently show anything 
other than MP, a little of XKO, and a wandering stray.  The attached view is 
from late in the noon hour until nearly 1:40, showing the span when the 
static grew to be too much even for Argo to work its wonders.

This is one of my 30 second slow reference captures.  What I was watching at 
noon that I hoped might be snippets of XNS is still visible at the far left 
just above MP, but upon reviewing the 60 second version, MP is more solid 
and so is a broken line that the 137.781 signal seems to be part of...but 
wandering in the opposite direction of the radio's thermal drift.  So, I can 
be confident that wasn't Jay.

The 10 second screens (not included here) show MP even more broken up.  XKO 
was hardly visible at that speed, even before the static increased.  Makes 
me wish I'd started watching much earlier in the morning.

Elsewhere that I looked today, CV was still coming in well up on 1750m, and 
WMS was fair.  I ran a second window down at 185.185, but no luck with SIW.

Among the HiFERs, USC was strong but a little drifty... EH was consistently 
strong...and NC was good most of the time.  Alas, MP was subject to slow but 
rather deep fades, but did come in well enough for one ID to see and hear 
the CW message as well.  No SIW again today at HF.  None of the conventional 
CW signals were audible this time, even parking on each channel for several 
minutes.  Got my hopes up on MTI's frequency, but it turned out to be a 
random ditter.  It's been about two weeks now since I Iast heard mystery 
HiFER CFV right at the upper end of the band, 13556.95.  Wish I knew who or 
what that one is.

John 
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