John, You are so right. The World has changed. Part of the issue with hearing Pacific DX, is the conditions are not what they ere 25 years ago. Even though I have the same EWE antenna (different wire of course), I have had 27 years, it still runs to the same tree and branches, the Pacific DX is no longer there. I am glad I was so avid at the dial for many years going after the flea power Pacific stations. A few I have missed out, never hearing like Niue Island on 594, Norfork on 1566, but I have been fortunate to hear and QSL most of them through the years. Fiji has been one of the easiest, with the old 891 (before that 890), frequency of 2 KW, later 10 KW, booming in night after night. Later on they ran the Hindi programming on there (Net 2). The logging of Radio Cook Islands on 630 khz back in 1982 with 500 watts during extreme AU conditions, after a typhoon distroyed their transmitter site and they were operating at low power for a time and catching the earlier Western Samoa on 1062 and 1404 khz. Then Wallis on 1188 back in 1984. Palau on 1584, and Guam on 567, 612, and 801 khz. I was fortunate to log & QSL them all. It was a blast, night after night, tuning in to lots of voices from the tiny islands in the Pacific. Going back farther to the 70s, listening night after night to WVUV American Samoa with 10 KW and their Top 40 Rock show and even AFRTS Marshalls on 1220 khz with 1 KW. I could write a book on all of the fantastic years I have at the dials logging the great stations of the Pacific. Those days are missed, but I have it all on reel to reel tape, if I ever get around to getting one of my machines fixed. But we do have our QSLs and the adventures around how we logged the stations. Great memories.
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