>From July 31 - August 2 I visited Grayland, WA and Florence, OR. At each location I set up a Perseus and a an 'extended DKAZ' antenna pointing at 235 deg -- towards Hawaii and the south Pacific [Aus/NZ]. The best day, of course, was the last day and I have put sound samples from 1300 utc up through 1280 kHz from both Grayland and Florence on a webpage for comparison:
<http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland6.php> I'll be adding more as time permits. The Grayland location was the famous Grayland Motel and Cottages and the location near Florence was a place called Sans Suci at about 800ft. elevation and back about 1000ft. from the Pacific. There are Google Map links to both sites on the webpage above. Also on the webpage are links to stats [stations logged, countries logged, stations/country, etc.], a Google Map view of the loggings and something I call AzBar which is a bar graph of the number of loggings at given azimuth ranges -- a good way to visualize how an antenna works. There is also a link to a pdf drawing of the extended DKAZ antenna, designed by Neil Kazaross. It is the best single-element, non-phased antenna I have ever used. It's pretty easy to errect and without phasing doesn't give me the opportunity to screw things up! What it does require though is some tweaking of the termination resistance - Rt. I know there's been a lot of interest recently in cliffside DXing. Perhaps some of the data in this report will let you compare simultaneous loggings from two locations at very different elevations. Unfortunately, the locations were also about 6 hours drive from one another so I make no claims on the issue based on these loggings but I won't be foresaking the Grayland Motel anytime soon! _______________________________________________ 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]
