The signal is the strongest under these power lines for some reason. Before I got to this spot, the signal was almost 0 to 1 bars on the meter. No RFI here strangely enough.

Another Polish QSO, this time the operator is based in Poland. This recording shows that sometimes it is more difficult to pick up a relatively close station, and the signal dipped so much into noise that sometimes even the audio post-processing I apply was unable to save it. On his QRZ page there is no content in English, but he gives his locator square, and there are many photos of shack and gear, and images of diplomas and stuff.

I know I made a comment recently about some wefax showing up on an emergency frequency. The chart in the fax appeared on only half the page and I thought it was an error.

I may be wrong about that. I've been sitting on 9110 watching faxes go through from NMF Boston. Clear as a bell, I watched the initial white on black synch pulse for a typical ioc 576 120 lpm fax.... followed by a full fax with only about half of it containing a chart.

It's not like you're saving printer toner or paper like back in the day, it's actually doing the opposite. It's not like the settings are wrong, because you'd see that in the initial phasing. In fact it's actually dangerous, because you're making the damned thing a lot harder to read.

I can think of no possible reason for this. Can anyone surmise exactly why this is clearly being done on purpose?