[Lowfer] WE2XEB/2 185.31 CW & QRSS10

[JD]

No go here in Kansas.  Had an average 2 mv of steady noise in a 250 Hz 
bandwidth at the receiver input...well over 60 dB greater than typical 
signals from Back East.  Instead of diminishing after dark, the tornadic 
storms that were in Nebraska and Iowa have begun pushing south into 
northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri; thus, even closer than they were 
before, and new storms are popping up out west of us in the southern part of 
the state too.

No luck with MP on 137.7805 either.

Did check check HiFERs at 22 m just before dark and again just before I came 
back to town tonight.  Only USC, EH, 7P and NC were visible either time, and 
only the strongest one at any given moment would be audible.  Before dark, 
all were undergoing wide level swings. Later, they were all quite a bit more 
consistent and sometimes all were audible, but even HF was experiencing 
intermittently significant static crashes by then.  (Lightning is visible in 
the tops of some of those NE Kansas storms, 140+ miles away!  I guess even 
HF QRN is to be expected when the path from the storms is basically line of 
sight.)

Last night should have been much quieter, but unfortunately the ground was 
too soggy to get to the antenna.  By tomorrow night, it'll be getting that 
way again.  The joys of Kansas early summer....

John D