[Lowfer] 137 kHz

[JD]

No daytime VO1NA here in Kansas.  In fact, nobody at all when I first tuned 
2200m about an hour and a half before sunset.

Suddenly, there was a very prominent "A" beginning around 2253 UTC, which 
turned out to be XEB keying up in mid-X.  Apparently, MP was in an unusually 
deep pre-sunset fade at the time, but it started showing up too about 10 
minutes later.  Then, XEB shifted frequency just before 2325.  MP was 
clearer at QRSS60, but I chose this QRSS30 capture to show just how strong 
XEB was.  It was also plainly visible at QRSS10, and was audible most of the 
time as well!

Currently too dangerous to monitor out there after sunset, so I had to call 
it quits before things probably got even more interesting.

Looked at HiFERs earlier. Both SIWs were doing quite nicely, but with the 
new perforation effect that showed up in propagation recently.  EH was 
showing a little bifurcation of its trace at the same time.  Good copy of NC 
and faint copy of MP.  The new FSK HiFER WM showed up for a while, but 
either went into a long, deep fade or went QRT just after 2217 UTC.  MTI was 
audible and PBJ visible & audible, but the two were right on top of each 
other in frequency.  GNK had wide QSB, but was distinct much of the time. 
HiFER captures at the LW Message Board ( http://lwca.org/mb ) tomorrow.

John 
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