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Offline Seamus

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Fooled myself this morning
« on: November 23, 2009, 1355 UTC »
Started running through my list at 13:24 UTC this morning:

OK - good and strong
might-have-been-PA - not enough to actually read, even on spectrogram; just a few suspect tones in the speaker, and a trace barely showing on the screen
Blinky - a bit weak and fading
Pike 78 - faint and on one of its "field trips" down to 8000.41
TS - heavy fading, but good when it's in

Also something at 8495 which looked to be slow code, but the fading was deep enough and sending slow as to make it unreadable - I was catching pieces of letters but nothing coherent.  After sitting on it for a while, I eventually realized that I was apparently hearing a single-letter beacon for "L", which the ionosphere was chopping up into random segments of dits and dahs.  (I need to make a note on my list that BC sits right next to a cluster of SLBs - they keep fooling me)
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