[Lowfer] The Friday Expedition

[mbdittmar at comcast.net]

Hi John, 

I fired XNI up on 185.296 at QRS20 to give you something to listen for. I'll run it for a few hours while I'm mowing the grass ! 

73 Mark 

WG2XNI 

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From: "JD" <listread at lwca.org> 
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2015 10:27:51 AM 
Subject: [Lowfer] The Friday Expedition 

While working on the fence row with the tractor yesterday, I let the CR-1 do 
what it does reasonably well...keep a watch on HF. HiFER reception has been 
poor recently, but there were hopeful signs at mid-day yesterday. NC and EH 
were fading in and out over roughly 3 minute cycles, and no SIW yet, but 
every so often I could see MP in there too, so I had hope. I turned on 
captures and went outside to work. 

At mid-to-late-afternoon, there was once capture showing a single very 
strong upstroke of SIW slant mode--nothing before, nothing after, just that 
one slope! Meanwhile, down about 13555.3, there was a complete set of WM 
IDs on screen. By late afternoon, SIW slant faded in abruptly and WM was 
consistent for a while. Then, equally abruptly, the ionosphere kicked in 15 
or 20 dB of attenuation on the path from Elgin, IL, and a minute later did 
the same to WM. That result can be seen here: 

http://lwca.org/mb/msg/5115.htm 

Everything at 22 meters seemed abrupt yesterday, in fact. Codar seemed to be 
switched on and dominate everything for a while, and then attenuation would 
be switched in again, leaving it just a mild clatter. 

Today I'm on my way out to listen for daytime LF with the Kenwood, if the 
thunderstorms on the Nebraska-Iowa border aren't too noisy. 

John 

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