[Lowfer] LF,MF, HF

[JD via Lowfer]

A fair night for 630 m WSPR, with XIQ and XXM all night.  XJM and 
XSH/20 were the regular "guests" showing up intermittently during the 
first half of the night, then it was XGP and XSH/20 the rest of the 
night.  Static during the dark hours averaged in the S5 vicinity with 
excursions from S3 to above S9; but XXM and XIQ together (both 
transmitted in the same timeslots at 50% duty cycle) steadied the 
S-meter typically between S7 and S8, sometimes just over S9.  By dawn, 
noise dwindled to the S2 region, with rare excursion to S7. WSPR 
decodes began taking too long by then, however, so I was missing a lot 
of timeslots that included XGP and XSH/20.  I ended the session a 
little after 7:00 and Ive now uploaded the decodes to wsprnet.

Next I switched to 22 m for a while.  EH was poor to fair, and NC and 
USC were both poor--until somebody suddenly turned on the ionosphere at 
7:18 plus about 20 seconds!  EH became consistently good, and NC and 
USC began ranging from fair to good.  Or perhaps more accurately, good 
punctuated with brief fades.  Nobody else seen or heard on the band so 
far this morning.

Last night, HiFERs faded out in quite a different sequence.  USC went 
away over the course of a minute or so, somewhat before sunset.  EH 
continued until just after 9 PM, and NC until 9:22 PM CDT, after which 
it was also gone for the night.  FRC was coming in fine with 20 wpm CW 
from California, though.

After this morning's look at HiFERs, I switched to 2200 m and 
immediately saw MP.  Combined signal and noise down there was under S1 
much of the time, but every few seconds there were static crashes to 
S9+20.  I imagine that's from storms in north central Kansas this 
morning.  At least it's not a continuous roar, so perhaps I can get an 
extended dawn-to-after-dark capture of MP today.

John