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For the past week here on the East Coast we have been milking a rather
productive auroral "cow" while the discourse from out west tends to be one
gloomy lack-of-TP's posting after the next.
Is Latin America from out there - other than pest Mexicans / Cubans - a total
non-starter?
I seem to remember '70s era logs of West Coast South America from West Coast
North America. Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and western Colombia had some
representation. Central America - admittedly aided by splits that aren't there
anymore - was reported almost as much as from the midwest and east.
Even some reports of Brazil and eastern Caribbean region stations - DX more
often associated with eastern US / Canada - wasn't completely off the table.
The Pacific Northwest (to some extent combined with CA, AZ, etc.) has more
active DXers with more different bags of tricks - ultralights / FSL's, SDR's /
QDFA and Wellbrook arrays, and so on - than the (at best) half dozen reasonably
active DXers in New England, NY, and NJ. Yet where are the Latin American logs?
Is it "all about the TP's - the TP's - no Latins" (to echo that massively
overplayed "all about the bass" song)?
TA's of course are always a big interest around here. During this aurora only
a handful of stations (e.g. Algeria 549, Canaries 621, Mauritania 783, Sao Tome
1530) have reasonably beefy signals. Boring, yes BUT South Americans are
SCREAMING in as they had not done for months, so no one in the northeast is
throwing up the hands or hanging up the headphones.
So as one who has only DX'ed from the West Coast for two weeks in 1991
(business trip to HP in Mountain View, CA), what's the deal on Latin America
from the West Coast? Certainly harder than from coastal NJ, MA, ME, PEI, NS,
and NL (or even Scotland and Finland it would seem), but impossible?
There are a lot of big gun DXers in BC, WA, OR, etc. with serious and varied
expertise, motivation, and technological power tools of all sorts at their
disposal. DXpeditions seem to be done more often out there - Grayland, Haida
Gwaii, Rockworks, et al.
I have to wonder if there are times of the year when sunset or dawn greylines
ever vector signals from Valparaiso, Chile or Lima, Peru into that area? Those
cities were certainly well represented when Richard Wood was DXing from Hawaii
but, of course, those were shorter and easier routes to that part of the
Pacific.
Would hearing those South Americans be easier from Alaska (away from the
mainland US / Mexican rabble) better than from closer sites along the US West
Coast, just as hearing Uruguay and Argentina is easier from Newfoundland than
from the Carolinas - lower pest levels trumping longer path lengths?
Sometime I may go on the Topband list and posit the same questions regarding
160-m ham activity from the western US / Canada to South America.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Twisted Propagation for 3-23
Hello All,
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For the second straight morning
Asian TP's were completely comatose, without even a?decent?carrier to be
found.?738-Tahiti struggled to reach a threshold level in KCBS splatter around
1330, but even that station was far?from a healthy level (and has started to
wear?out its welcome here recently, anyway). This must be the west coast version
of the total eclipse-- a total eclipse of?Asian propagation for two days
straight.
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73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)?
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