[Lowfer] 137 kHz

Mitch Powell ve3ot.mp at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 11:12:15 EDT 2015


John: Thank you for the report - running regular ( 200 watts ) here and
normal antenna current, etc.
73
Mitch


On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:18 AM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> 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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