[Lowfer] Daytime EAR...in Kansas!

[JD]

It's not much to look at, and it's not complete IDs, but it was present
even in mid-day! The repeated "R" at regular 15 minute intervals is pretty
convincing. This is actually a QRSS60 trace, blown up 1.75 times.  The
QRSS30 trace was less distinct and plagued by numerous stray carriers.

EAR was my target for last night, but I didn't get as much as I hoped due
to a hardware problem that I didn't notice until late morning. It was warm
enough to snooze in the truck last night, so I napped after setting
everything up. When I awoke at daybreak, I looked at the most recent
excellent captures with delight, and noticed that the signal was
continuing after sunrise, which had never happened before; weaker, but
still identifiable.

I was so happy about it that I went to town for breakfast. Upon my return,
though, I discovered that the trace stopped immediately after I left the
building. The radio itself was working, the computer was working, and the
passive audio clipper was working, but no signal was reaching Argo. Turned
out to be poor contact at the sound card input jack. Looking back through
the night's captures, I saw it had done the same thing for some hours
while I was napping.  So, I'm debating now whether to try EAR again
tonight or go on to my previously scheduled target, TAG. (We're not likely
to have many more low-QRN nights this year, so I'm making the rounds of
1750m with some earnestness now.) Either way, I reckon I'd better find
some contact cleaner before I return to the field!

John
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