[Lowfer] EAR in ME - Daytime!

[w1tag at charter.net]

Just when you think that you've been doing this stuff too long, and have 
seen everything, along comes this morning. With the power-line radiated 
noise gone from the camps to either side of ours, things were pretty 
quiet last night except for the T-storm activity around TX. Tried to get 
SIW, but just had fragments around sunrise. SJ is on the air with 
QRSS20, but that's easy stuff.

So, this morning, I looked for MP, and caught the tail end of a 
character, and nothing more. Then I tried to think of who else might be 
on the air, and came up with EAR. Now, I've tried this in the daytime 
for years from the Maine QTH, and never gotten anything at all. It's a 
bit of a nasty frequency because of TV sweep harmonics, and combined 
with the typical "buzz" from the neighbor to the south, it has only been 
copied at night.

The capture below was taken at mid-morning...the time stamps are UTC. 
Could have dropped the gain and gotten less crud. The signal level was 
higher at the start, and probably indicates the beginning of a 
mid-morning fade, which is common with MP.

Distance is 561 miles, due east/west. My thanks go to the elderly guy 
next door who left for NC about a week ago, and his local friend who 
went into his camp yesterday and shut off all the electrical stuff that 
had been left running...

And thanks to J.B. for keeping EAR going!

John, W1TAG
Raymond, ME FN43sv

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