Gary, a few miles sure seems to make a big difference. I recall down at Canon Beach DXing during a July week holiday a couple of years back, and being very impressed with the amount of DU dx audible only using my Sony 2010 and built in whip. Seems to me that the further north we go along the coast, the more difficult the DU DX, and of course conversely the more Asian DX which pours in. In Masset in late June/early July there were mornings of decent DU reception, but nothing like you were hearing in Oregon. Then again, as I type this, I'm enjoying some Perseus files from 3January at 01:00 this year from Masset, and have been blown away with the number of Iranian transmitters carrying the 1st program, so easy to locate parallels! Then there's Saudi Arabia 1440 way over anything domestic. Don't mention Radio Farda pegging the meter on 1575! Radio Sawa likewise on 1431 from Djibouti. Bottom line, wherever we listen from, there can be some pretty interesting programming to DX, domestic or foreign........Walt Salmaniw,Victoria.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 26, 2010 19:07 Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Beach DXpedition To: [email protected] > Hi Guy, > > Thanks very much for listening to the 585 kHz MP3, and for > your helpful > comments. > > When I first tuned to 585 kHz (in Oregon) and heard the classic > rock at a > decent level, I had absolutely no idea what it was. Nothing like > that had > ever shown up for me at Grayland on my modest equipment. Many > other DU > surprises followed, though, like the fairly strong NZ Maori > station on 603, a DU > talk station fighting it out with 639-Fiji every morning, 666 > kHz in > French, a 684 kHz parallel with 639-Fiji, a weak DU co-channel > (with talk > format) on 657 kHz with NZ's Southern Star, and other mysteries. > > The variety and strength of the DU signals in Lincoln City > was completely > unexpected, and made me wonder whether we were getting the > short end of the > stick at Grayland :-) > > 73, Gary > > > In a message dated 7/25/2010 11:30:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight > Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Hi Gary, > > Thanks for posting the MP3s. On the 585 recording, the meat > of the possible > ID is between 2:18.3 and 2:20.5, a mere two and a half > seconds! However, > I'm > 90% sure I'm hearing the male announcer with an Aussie > accent, and in > English as you mentioned. > > I've listened to it over and over, at 0.7x the original > playback speed > (with > pitch adjustment, in Total Recorder Pro). As best as I can > make out, I'm > hearing: "..news... ..??EB...Halpern (or > "Melbourne")" That's it! It's > a > real tough audio segment to understand. I hope another DXer can > make out > more details. > > The most promising clues that it's 585 2WEB is the Aussie > accent and the > "..EB" partial callsign that I might be hearing. > > A very nice DU catch on an ultralight, whatever it really > was, Gary! > > Guy Atkins > Puyallup, WA > http://fivebelow.squarespace.com > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > _______________________________________________ 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]
