[Lowfer] WE2XEB/2 185.31 CW & QRSS10

[Warren K2ORS]

John,

     Thanks for looking! Will stay on the 185kHz band for a bit, perhaps 
with a bit more power and longer QRSS cycles.

73 Warren



On 6/4/2014 12:11 AM, JD wrote:
> 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
>

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