Until the sun went to hell in a handbasket I could receive 80M regularly each evening and tropicals almost all the time...The active antenna I have will go down to MW (blowtorches and locals only ) but it is a struggle below 80M any time of the solar spectrum
Things have got to get better or this hobby will lose a lotta newbies real quick My complements again on your enthusiastic support of a hobby I used to be really involved in . Yours and the posts of a gentleman in Clewiston Fl. keep my dwaining (is THAT a WORD?) interests alive yodar --- On Sat, 1/3/09, aurel chiochiu <[email protected]> wrote: From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]> Subject: [HCDX] best antenna for TROPICAL BANDS DXing To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 10:01 PM Warm greetings and season greetings ! After the huge success of the PK's Magnetic LW loop antenna, I wonder what aerial should I use for a forray into the SW tropical bands of 90 and 60 meters. I was alwas fascinated by broadcast bands used only in some parts of the world such as LW, OIRT-FM, the tropical bands, the X-band, the Japanese FM band, etc. because is like being born again into another world. I receive very few exotic signals on 60m using my Sangean CST-818 connected to a random wire in our yard of roughly 10 - 20 meters of length... An antenna dedicated to the tropical bands would be the best gift for me 22nd year of birthday (with the possible exception of an OIRT-FM tuner since the F2 may exceptionally reach these frequencies and OIRT-FM F2 skip is much more likely than Japanese FM F2 skip, let alone CCIR-FM F2 skip) which takes place the next 16th of July, more than 6 months away, but we can even celebrate our non-birthday according to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson / Lewis Carroll's caracters. May the good DX comeback, as condx aren't even half-decent right now ! Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefonds-Roxboro (Pierrefonds-est in the eastern border of Montreal's West Island), QC - PQ ---[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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ---[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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
