Bob -
You bet I remember. That was your Mineola place, right? I drove over from Connecticut or Newark or one of the nearby satellite transmission facilities where I was working. For me, TA DX was not as great at my inland location (in Atlanta way back then) but my best Africans were in the summer and never in the fall "DX season". When you were lucky enough to have little thunderstorm noise (a few nights a month if you were lucky) and good conditions (same comment), there they were: interesting stations like 1475 Benin, 1403 Guinea and Togo 1502 or was it 1503 then? 1403 Guinea was my best and most reliable, which was nice as they constantly played kora music and to this day I love the kora and go listen to it whenever possible in Seattle (rarely). Vive Toumani Diabate! Moving on to other things..... I have a CD I made of one of your reel to reel tapes you made from NY. If you remember them, it starts with a salute to Father Jack Pezja, Randy Seaver and some other west coast DXers and then follows with an hour of TA , domestic and TP logs including a fabulous reception of Urumqi 1525. If you want a copy, it's yours for the asking. So where are your "loaned" reels and r to r recorder? Is it hopeless to recover them? This stuff would be a nice bit of history. I wont sleep well until your stuff and John Callarman's stuff is archived digitally. Speaking of John...... Wake up! Chuck > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:56:06 +0000 > From: rfoxw...@tampabay.rr.com > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com > CC: can...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [IRCA] TA on the west coast??? > > > I remember several such receptions of this type _that always occurred in > June_, at African s/on time, when I was DXing from Long Island NY. This > was probably in 1980 +. The notable ones were Cotonou, Benin on 1475 > (offset from 1476), Lama-Kara, Togo on 1503 and // 3222 (which was not > a lot better and in fact had a lot more fading), and probably the most > dependable was Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on 1494. I recall once a visit > from Chuck Hutton and I played him my tape of "ici Lama-Kara, radiodifusion > nationale Togolaise" which was heard thanks to WTOP then signing off > at 1 am daily back then. CH do you recall that visit? > > This were always pretty specific as to time of year, time of day, and > freq (very top end of MW band) and now your Benin log fits this pattern > perfectly. These were far from daily loggings, but they did happen much > more than just one-off's, but just only in June. I have no doubt these would > have made it to the WC of NA for Bog/Beverage users. Back then no one > had such antennas in the hobby world. > > These were heard on either a HQ-150 or NRD-515 (not sure I had the NRD > then) and with a 3-foot indoor altaz "NRC" loop. I may still have that > tape. I gave most of my tapes, a nearly new Sony CD burner, and an > Otari MX-5050 pro tape deck to another DX'er in Florida who promised > to copy all my tapes to CD for me, 2 years ago. but he never did so after > the first one. But I have no way to play it, if it is still here, as > he still has all that gear. That was when I moved. > > 73 Bob > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > IRCA@hard-core-dx.com > 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
