Hello Walter I send this mesage thrice to your email but seems bounced and i do not know why .... this is the reason I send this mesa throu the mail list
Your thoghts in this mesage remind also my thoughts.... When i was driving thru very big lands incide Greece , i was always thinking putting wires of more than 1500 m long , posibly suitable to DX on MWs esp in the LA or even SEA or even making a rombic antenna 400 m each pole , with orientation towards SEA for listening to my most belowed sations from that places (Msia , Insia , Brunei etc)....... I also have a 1103 but sudenly it lost its AM abilities and i today sporadically use my 1102 to listen only to specified stations for QSL reasons. Unfortunately Degen/Tecsun seems closed and a pending order is now impossible . It is now 5 months since i have no news from them. Are you there? http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=walter+salmaniw&init=q You can look at me in http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854 > I've just returned from a short vacation in Maui, Hawaii. In my > possession, I brought along my Kaito/Degen 1103 portable receiver > along with about 20' of random wire. As is so often the case, my > monitoring recaptured some of the thrill that has been lost in > recent years as tropical band stations drop out one by one. The > norm in the Pacific north west, where I live, is to hear virtually > no stations in the dawn period on 60 meters, apart from a few > Chinese power houses. Gone are the days when the band would be full > of PNG, Indonesian, and other Asian stations. Well, I found where > they all went. Where do you ask? Hawaii is the simple answer! For > many of us, Hawaii can represent a relatively easily accessible > DXer's paradise. All that one needs is a handy portable SW > receiver, and preferably some random length of wire. For the really > serious DXers out there, why not take along a real communications > receiver. In the past, I've taken along a Kenwood R5000 and dx'd > some ! > pretty amazing stations, including the old Taliban radio station > from Afghanistan on 41 meters with a wildly drifting signal in > English and later in Russian as well. These days, there's an > excellent alternative, and that is Software Defined Radios, or SDR > for short. These nimble little units measure no larger than small > portables, but one does need a laptop to use with them. I would > have really loved to have brought by Dell laptop and SDR-IQ or > Perseus receiver, but alas, I didn't. Still, I had a lot of fun. > Over two mornings (from about 06:30 to 08:15 AM local or 16:30 to > 18:15 UTC), I sat on the lanai scanning the tropical bands. Sunrise > occured at 7:03 AM during this time of the year, so no need for > super early rising. Here's what I heard on Friday February 15th > and Saturday the 16th: > > 4635 Tajik Radio, Dushanbe fair to good > 4750 Probable Chinese at 16:45 on Sat. CC programming with weak > cochannel (which might have been Radio Peace in Sudan) 4760 Sat > only. > May have been TWR Swaziland at fair level. 4775 Sat only at fair > level with weak music. ?AIR Imphal. 4800 Music at good to very > good level. CC. 4810 talk at poor level. ?AIR Bhopal or Armenia. > 4820 CC talk at good level and s/off at 18:00. Lhasa, Tibet. 4828 > Zimbabwe fair with music. 4835 fair to good level. Thought this was > an African, but who? Possibly too Alice Springs still on their day > frequency instead of 2310. 4840 fair talk AIR Mumbai? 4860 Koran > at 16:52 AIR Delhi with Northern Service. Fair. 4880 Good level > with a het. Seems on the high side of 4880. Middle eastern > sounding music. Presumably AIR Lucknow with Northern service. 4895 > fair reception on Saturday. Probably AIR Kurseong, although > couldn't absolutely rule out Sarawak (but doubt the latter). 4900 > fair to good with Firedrake style music. Voice of the Strait, > Fuzhou listed. 4905 Very good reception with EZL music. Again, > Lhasa, Tibet. 4910 Indian music at 16:54. Presumed AIR Jaipur. > 4920 Very good reception of EZL music. Again, Lhasa, Tibet. 4930 > Very good reception with African accented English. News at 17:25 > noticed on Saturday. VOA, Botswana. 4940 English news between 17:30 > to 17:35 only followed by Indian music at fair level. Improved to > fair to good reception by 16:55. This is AIR Guwahati, in Assam. > Heard on Saturday. 4950 lively Portuguese talk at 17:20 at fair to > good levels. This is Angola. Either has weak modulation, or was > cochannel with a stronger OC station. Not sure. Very rarely heard > on the west coast for sure! 4965 poor to fair. Possibly Tajikistan. > 4975 poor reception. Again,perhaps Tajikistan. About the right > strength to come from that part of the world. 4980 fair talk at > 16:57 on Saturday. ?Xinjiang PBS. 4990 poor to fair again on > Saturday. Either AIR Itanagar, or Hunan PBS. 5000 WWVH and > cochannel Chinese time signal station. 5010 Good reception on > Saturday with AIR English news at 17:30. This is AIR > Thiruvananthapuram. Don't hear this one very often back home. 5015 > fair reception on Saturday with music. Presumably Turkmen Radio, in > Asgabat. 5030 Usual power house Chinese station at very good level, > just like home! 5040 fair to good on Saturday except for splatter > from 5030 presumably AIR Jeypore with their Eastern service. 5060 > poor reception of presumed Xinjiang PBS. > > Now, on Saturday, I also did a short bandscan on 90 meters at 17:00 > UTC: > > 3200 poor/fair TWR Swaziland > 3250 fair to good reception North Korea. > 3320 poor/fair reception North Korea. Sounds jammed. > > Not much to be heard, but perhaps I listened too late in the > morning. Now switching to 49 meters, I found the band absolutely > alive with stations on virtually every channel. A nice improvement > after 17:00 in strength, too. > > 6055: French talk which is presumably Radio Rwanda. Generally well > heard based on past visits to Hawaii. 6250 North Korea with strong > signal. 6260 Not sure who this was. Sounded kind of Middle eastern > or even African. 6270 someone here as well. 6285 North Korea in > Russian at good level. 6915 someone here at poor to fair strength. > > I was handicapped with having no internet access (no computer with > me), and only an older 2005 WRTH as a resource. Still, I think that > you can see that the potential exists for some pretty exciting DX > from Hawaii. As for the random wire....I simply tossed it from the > lanai to a close tree. I have to admit that the noise is pretty bad > in a lot of the resorts owing to energy saving lights, TV sets in > the proximity, etc., at least in the Kaanapali area of Maui. While > MW dxing, I did on occasion move down (after sunset) to the beach > and DX'd just using the internal ferrite core with very quiet > conditions. By the way, I had the opportunity to DX just about every > Hawaiian AM station, along with recording IDs from them on my Edirol > R-09 mp3 recorder. For distant DX, though, at least on the MW band, > one needs a little more than simply using the internal ferrite core > antenna. I would definitely suggest using a portable loop, or even > a Beverage antenna if room exists. I just dreamed of laying out 500 > or more feet of wire along the beach at night, but never had the > chance to do this. > > Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC. > > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- > > Order your WRTH 2008: > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 > ---[End Commercial]----------------------- > ________________________________________ > Hard-Core-DX mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ > _______________________________________________ > > THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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