[Lowfer] 137.776 For A Few Hours...

[JD]

Curses, foiled again.  If I had been able to go to the field right when Bob 
announced his plans, it probably would have worked 'cause things were still 
pretty quiet right then.

By the time I got done shooting photos, though, there were two large areas 
of thunderstorms each about 120 miles distant in different directions. 
Static varied from S5 to S9+20 on 2200m, so all I got was thin random lines 
about where MP and XEB should have been, plus another wandering carrier that 
has been showing up just below MP lately.  As of now, the thunderstorms in 
central Missouri have weakened, but the ones that were northwest of Wichita 
have formed a substantial line in central and southern Kansas that's now 
less than 100 miles away.  That'll probably spoil my plans to go out later 
tonight.

Even 22m was experiencing some static, but at the watering hole, USC, MP, 
BC, and NC were still quite good, though BC had more fading than the others. 
EH was not doing very well today, and I didn't see EDJ at all.  Elsewhere, 
PBJ appeared to be below MTI in frequency, and wasn't consistent enough in 
level to decode.  MTI was nicely audible at times, then gone again a few 
seconds later.

John