[Lowfer] 474.2 kHz WSPR over night

[JD via Lowfer]

Good work, Garry.

Didn't listen here last night...still too sleepy from being up all the 
previous night.  Sunday night here brought XIQ and XXM, of course, XKA 
for a few decodes after mid-evening, then XJM and XGP off and on the 
remainder of the night.

(The night before, I was getting intermittent decodes from XSH/20, but 
never on the segment with the ID, only the one with the locator.  I 
could see the traces on Argo, but they were apparently never strong 
enough right at the beginning for WSPR to catch the header.  No BDQ 
here at all lately, alas.)

During the daytime Monday, HiFERs were rather weak.  Only USC was 
fairly consistent throughout the day, and even it disappeared for brief 
periods.  NC was next most reliable, then EH. HiFER MP appeared a few 
times, with something of an ocean wave frequency wobble the last few 
days.  Yesterday it was broken up much of the time, but there was one 
extremely solid "M" out of nowhere in the hour before sunset.  SIW 
slant appeared in ghostly form in late afternoon for part of the W, 
then faded again.

At times I was seeing a mystery FSK or DFCW signal above NC, quite 
faint.  At first I suspected it was the 120 Hz upper sideband of EH, 
but lining up the screen with EH on it disproved that notion.  Perhaps 
it was BC back on the air, but I could never get enough pieces to 
complete the trace and be sure.  Up from the watering hole, MTI 
eventually showed up on screen and was audible some of the time, and 
possibly AJO.  Nobody else yesterday, though I did copy FRC by ear 
briefly on Sunday.

As for LF, I've continued (about every other day) trying to record MP 
on Argo from sunrise to an hour or more after sunset.  Static has built 
up so much in the afternoons that I gradually lose the signal between 1 
and 2 PM CDT.  Except for yesterday, that is, when the static stayed 
fairly low until the sun was low in the sky, but I lost MP in the early 
afternoon anyway.

John