Both beacons audible this morning between 11:00 and 11:30 CDT. WV was the stronger and more consistent of the two, given that PCO is normally within my first skip zone---but PCO was surprisingly consistent compared to usual, with CW keying faintly audible all the time and one or two very clear IDs in a row intermittently. It seemed that there were long dashes every so often, but I couldn't determine the exact pattern.No copy of PIE/B or RF today; not too surprising since both of those were in the path of Ian. No CW copied above 13565 either, thanks mainly to SWBC sideband QRM. I could hear plenty of activity at the digimode watering hole but couldn't actually SEE any of it due to failure of my spare notebook computer.
I listened again briefly this afternoon around 3:30 PM CDT and continued to copy PCO at about the same consistency.
This time, WV was plagued by local QRM from my power supply, as was the far top end of the band. This was because my beloved Honda generator decided to die after running only 30 seconds this morning, and refused to start again the rest of the day. To recharge the storage battery for the radio, I had to power the charger from the inverter in my Westinghouse iGen 600, whose own battery was low from my futile efforts with the computer, and was being supplemented from the car's noisy charging system. By itself, the iGen is not too bad at 22 m, noise wise, but the combo was terrible.
The day was a lot less productive than I hoped, but not a total loss.