[Lowfer] Good LF conditions over night

[Garry]

Monitored 518 kHz Navtex with one eprobe/sdr-iq and was pleased to see 
west coast decodes from 4 area 12 stations (C,H,Q, and W). In addition, 
area 4 station M in Simiutaq/Cape Farewell yielded 2 messages. Haven't 
decoded Greenland for quite awhile. Think it's been in there fine but 
loudmouth station N in Chesapeake, Virginia overwhelms it.  bit earlier 
I'm pretty sure station I sent a short "no message" message from 
Upernavik/Disko Island, Greenland but it failed to decode.

Station N often transmits clear through the station P time slot. For 
some reason last night it had very little traffic; hence, M came through 
fine. In fact, once after N dekeyed it was clear that area 12 station O 
in Hawaii was present, but it was too weak to decode anything.

At local sunrise was still decoding plenty of DGPS stations from the 
west (for example, 315 kHz, Spokane, WA; 313 kHz, Billings, MT; 312 kHz, 
Austin, NV; 307 kHz, Pueblo, CO; 303 kHz, Myton, UT; 294 kHz, Klamath 
Falls, OR; and 291 kHz, Albuquerque, NM).

474.2 kHz WSPR signals from VE7BDQ and VE7CNF begain decoding early last 
night, a clue that propagation was good to the west. Too bad WH2XCR in 
Hawaii wasn't on last night.

VLF Alpha signals were unimpressive here and WSPR SNRs from WD2XES and 
WH2XXR on 136 kHz seemed pretty normal.

-- 
Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL