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Weather / Re: Chilly morning

« on: January 30, 2021, 1413 UTC »

Clear sky with just past full moon last night on the snowscape made for almost daylight conditions,
temp quickly fell and ended up at lowest for this season at 6F before sunrise,
quick rebound this morning under bright sunshine, up to 12F an hour after sunrise.

167

Weather / Re: Chilly morning

« on: January 29, 2021, 1929 UTC »

Temp bottomed out at 12F here just before sunrise...
finally able to get out on the ice.

168

Weather / Re: Chilly morning

« on: January 26, 2021, 1611 UTC »

Started snowing here about 1030Z this morning,
still snowing with 3"n the ground so far,  lows
around 10F Wed-Thu-Fri...  will make the
ice fishing crowd happy. 

169

Longwave Loggings / Re: LWBC in Michigan

« on: January 26, 2021, 1006 UTC »

Still have an old copy (1963) of White's Radio Log,
was included in Radio-TV Experimenter Magazine.

170

Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2020 NDB Logs

« on: January 25, 2021, 1100 UTC »

lots of T-storm static QRN this morning from a line of activity through TX-OK,
too early for this   

171

Longwave Loggings / Re: DIW ?

« on: January 23, 2021, 1349 UTC »

DIW has completely dropped off the radar here..
last heard here early December.

172

Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2020 NDB Logs

« on: January 20, 2021, 2111 UTC »

More daytime DX  1-20-21  @2040Z
340  YY  Mont Joli  QC  over 800 mi
nearly sunset there but daylight path between us

173

Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2020 NDB Logs

« on: January 19, 2021, 2248 UTC »

Daytime DX 1-19-21 @1830Z
248  WG  Winnipeg  MB   830 mi
rather surprising considering the poor propagation lately

174

MW Loggings / Re: WCKY (tent.) 1530 AM 0330 UTC 18 January 2021

« on: January 18, 2021, 1018 UTC »

Nice catch on this one from your location. 
The Cincinnati station beams most of its power
away from you to protect the CA station.

175

Amateur Radio / Re: ARRL VHF Contest on, now!

« on: January 17, 2021, 2158 UTC »

Thanks for the reminder. 
Unfortunately 6 meters is dead here. 

176

General Radio Discussion / Re: Space discovery: FM radio signal found coming from Jupiter moon

« on: January 14, 2021, 2253 UTC »

Ganymede, located in the neutral zone, has long been a favorite haunt of freebooter and space rogue pinto vortando.
Especially appealing is its total lack of extradition treaties with other worlds.
Anyway, it seemed like an ideal location for a pirate FM station out of reach of regulation.

177

MW Loggings / Re: KCJJ1630, Iowa City.

« on: January 12, 2021, 1344 UTC »

Have noticed past couple of weeks KCJJ with very strong signal into here well past our local sunrise.
May be due to the fact that the sun is at about its lowest all year in the sky... not able to quickly
ionize the D layer and thus absorb MW signals.

Their signal finally and rather abruptly dropped out one hour after our sunrise this morning.

178

ID and Translation Requests / Re: unid 17.145

« on: January 11, 2021, 1836 UTC »

Just came across this post.

Could be USCG NMG New Orleans  WXFAX.
There was talk about phasing this out but
AFAIK they still do WXFAX. 

179

Weather / Re: Drama free weather

« on: January 11, 2021, 1810 UTC »

Mild (for January) here in Michigan as well.  Daytime highs low to mid 30s and nighttime low around 20.
Ponds around here don't have enough ice on them to safely walk on.  Wind calm to light, no snow... lots of
people out walking and riding bikes in the various parks.

180

Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2020 NDB Logs

« on: January 10, 2021, 2136 UTC »

274  YPM  Pikangikum ON, been hearing this one regularly with good sigs...
AFAIK it was supposed to be shut down back in March last year.