[Lowfer] WG2XNI 186.000 khz MT/Hell

[JD]

Hi Mark.  Like Garry, I didn't have very good results with reception last 
night, either...not with XNI, nor SIW.  There was a little more noise after 
dark than there had been in the afternoon on 1750m, both static and PLCs. 
In addition, there was quite a bit of QSB.

On Garry's signal, I started out in QRSS60 mode and realized I wasn't going 
to see the transitions between elements very clearly there; I could only 
gauge the characters by timing, so I switched to QRSS30 and caught the W a 
little better...then a fade set in.  At the same time, I was capturing on 
185.303--also accidentally in 60 s mode, unfortunately, which meant that I 
saw only a blur where there should have been an S and the first dot of the 
J, but at least the three dashes of the J were distinctive.  That's when the 
same fade hit that wiped out SIW for a while, but SJ never returned here.

At midnight, I finally tuned up to watch for Mark, and also watched MLS in 
the same passband on another Argo instance.  Nothing at all from MLS, and 
only the result you see here for Mark.

I'll be trying again around the 1750m wateringhole tonight, but I don't plan 
to be out as late as last night.

John 
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