Hi all: I'm in Newport, Oregon for a few days on business I wish all such trips could be near places like this with its great DX potential (oh yeah, I hear it's also got a really nice ocean beach or something to that effect). After determining that my hotel room wasn't going to cut it, I have camped out on a State Park picnic bench the past two mornings. A State trooper flashed a curious floodlight my way this morning about a half hour before sunrise, but apparently a lone DXer isn't considered a threat to the public - at any rate, I would have resisted arrest, since DX opportunities like this come FAR too infrequently for me :-)
After a lackluster Monday morning here with only the bigger Japanese and Korean guns being heard, and an eerie deadness early this morning, things really picked up as sunrise neared. Local sunrise was 1356. All heard on a Kchibo D96L with Crate loop active/passive loop (Quantum Loop base), using a barefoot Sony 7600GR as a spotter. I skipped around quite a bit, so the following is chronological rather than by frequency (sorry!): 738 Tahiti at 1256 with good French language banter. Still good when I checked again at 1357. 828 Japan at 1300 with NHK synchros this surfaced with audio before 693, 747 or 774 1575 VOA-Thailand at 1311 with a HUGE signal at this time, discernable on the barefoot D96L 594 Japan at 1315, finally coming in, eventually checked against 567 parallel frequency at 1347 675 at 1317 with unknown mumbling man's voice 891 at 1325 pile-up, one DU and another with a woman's Asian language 936 at 1328 unknown female Asian voice, probably CC 972 at 1331 two, one which sounded like KK, the other an unknown female announcer 1134 at 1334 music at good level, presumed CC 1566 HLAZ at 1339 finally faded up to a decent level, with a slow, monotone male announcer (my third grade teacher???) 1575-VOA at 1340 much weaker than at 1311 but still quite listenable 567 Japan at 1347 paralleled with 594 576 at 1344 Russian male announcer at good level, presumed RV1030 639 at 1346 not //594, so presumed Chinese 693 Japan at 1347 now easily the strongest of the NHK-2 Big 4 891 Australia at 1348 clear male anouncer's voice, nice ID at 1350 819 Unknown at 1352 vocal music of some sort 774 Japan at 1355 finally becoming the strongest NHK-2 station, no hint of DU. Best on 773, away from 780-KKOH 558 Unknown at 1401 woman's Asian voice Being a little after sunrise, things started dissipating away.....but wait! 531 great signal from Australia at 1402 mentions of meddling politicians in Canberra, etc. Good steady signal for about five minutes 612 very good level at 1406-1408 discussing Australian cricket, so presumed 4QR 774 3LO decent at 1412 but fading away in the vacuum created by JOUB, with discernable Aussie accented male announcer. 891 was not heard during this last gasp. This was still going on 15 minutes after sunrise here. I had to get going to work, but things were starting to fade, so I probably didn't miss much. 73 Kevin S Bainbridge Island, WA (usually) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
