[Lowfer] [Hifer] NC GA RY

[Peter Barick]

HiFER monitoring -- Sunday, 9-14-03

Started at 10:00A with occasional monitoring. Rx is a Drake R-8 and
NE-SW dipole about 30 feet high and sloping to NE. Found GA strong and
slightly audible, below was RY in DFSK.

At 12:30P start to see NC in continuous DFSK that appears as a string
on Ns about 65Hz above RY. It fades or stops and then appears 90Hz above
RY. Can Dex account for this change? RY stayed constant.

At 1:30P only RY and strong, others are traces. At 2:20 both GA and RY
strong.

At 7:50P (dark here) the NC trace is continuous, as a square wave, very
bright on Argo, along with GA and RY, all solid.

At 7:58, tune to 13.576 and hear HI all over and prominent at .5593

At 9:05, only RY left and now the starship is dog bones audible. I must
say, John, that pattern sure does compel more than a passing look, and
the appearance of DFSK at QRSS3 is a plus over a regular sig. In
general, it is much easier to ID a FSKd sig due to its two channel
appearance and over cw, esp. one that may be dropping out from fading,
thereby chopping a dash into something less and hindering
interpretation, unless one knows by usual sig location or proximity to
another recognizable sig.

Nights are cooling and coming faster, already I miss the heat and this
year not mush of that. Cheers.

Peter, N IL  EN51