[Lowfer] HiFERs in SE Kansas Today

[JD]

This afternoon was not terribly productive.  USC was quite strong; so much 
so, in fact, that the dogbones kind of interacted with the nearly 10 Hz wide 
frequency shift to interfere with itself a bit.  Sal's EH and N beacons shut 
down a minute  or so after I started watching, but returned abruptly about 4 
PM CDT with a lot of downward drift for a while until settling into place. 
NC faded in and out.  There was no sign of MP or the SIW duo, and the only 
audible CW beacon was MTI.  On Argo, I could detect the DAID pattern of AJO, 
but did not hear anything.

Right about sunset, I went out and tried again. This time, MP was visible, 
but with USC straddling it.  No sign of N, but for a little while I thought 
I saw a ramp that could have been part of SIW's ID.  It didn't last long 
enough to be sure.  EH was strong, and NC was much improved from the 
afternoon.  Aural copy of FRC was quite good at times.  Thought I  heard 
SZK, but couldn't be sure...raspy QRM on the frequency.  Same with GNK. 
Lots of codar this evening, too.

Continuous S9 static on 1750 m and a little louder on 2200 m, so I didn't 
see anybody there this evening.

John