[Lowfer] 137.7778 for tonight QRSS60...

[JD]

Too much noise most of tonight for DK7FC after I switched from 137.78 down 
to the TA segment..  QRN actually got worse as the evening progressed, not 
better.  Not only did the thunderstorms down at the Mexican border increase 
in area once they reached the Gulf, we also had an area of lightning develop 
down in central Arkansas.

None the less, I did see signal prior to roughly 0115, when it began fading 
or else got swamped by all the noise.  If Stefan was using 0.2 Hz shift and 
the higher one was right on 136.172, then I will claim detection...and an 
actual decode of one "C" just for good measure.

I checked DCF77 real quickly about 0115 and had S6 signal among the S9+ 
crashes.  JJY was just audible on 40 kHz.  France Inter had an S9 signal 
that would have been pleasant listening if it hadn't been for so many +50 dB 
crashes in AM bandwidth.  Medi 1 wasn't doing so well, but Europe 1 was 
fair...and I heard BBC on 198 for the first time in ages!  Were it not for 
the static, it might have been listenable with the notch filter nulling the 
adjacent NDB carrier.

BTW, on Sunday afternoon I saw HiFERs USC, EH, 7P, and NC.  Since I was 
running late, I didn't make my usual sweep of the whole band, only the 
watering hole.  USC was loudly audible, and the 10 Hz shift was easily 
detectable by ear at 800 Hz.  A couple of times, 7P was plainly audible as 
well.  EH was somewhat audible, but 5 Hz shift out of 900 Hz is a little 
less than my ears could discriminate.  Haven't seen anything out of the MP 
HiFER in quite a while, alas.

73
John