Hello All, The final early morning DXing session at the 400' high cliff top view point on Oregon's NW ocean coast featured excellent Longwave conditions to Alaska, but only the "big gun" South Pacific stations managed to show up on medium wave, and they really didn't sound very big. Compared to yesterday's outstanding opening to Australia and New Zealand, this morning's South Pacific propagation sounded pretty awful.
567-2YA, 594-3WV, 603-Waatea, 639-Radio Fiji One, 657-Southern Star, 675-3YA, 684-NZ Rhema, 738-Tahiti, 774-3LO, 891-5AN, 1017-A3Z and 1116-4BC all managed fair audio at times, but certainly nothing like yesterday's booming signals. The weaker DU co-channels of these stations were all missing in action, and I had the strong suspicion that if I had been DXing around sea level, none of these DU "big guns" would have shown up on my PL-380 Ultralight, either. Maybe that's one of the drawbacks of experiencing awesome DU propagation at a place like the "Rockwork" ocean viewpoint high on a surfside cliff-- you get spoiled pretty quickly! DX that would thrill you at home becomes second-rate high on the cliff, as you are reminded that even these oceanside cliffs go through their own form of DU propagation skids at times. In general the 3-day trip was thrilling, however, producing breakthrough Ultralight DX loggings on both Longwave and AM. The concept of combining the highly portable, high-gain FSL's with salt water propagation and cliff-top elevation seems to have worked wonders, and should make Ultralight radio transoceanic DXing even more exciting and competitive in the future. Have fun, guys! 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (back in Puyallup, WA) Fortunately my wife (who _______________________________________________ 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]
