Hello All, After some creative packing a fully crammed Toyota Corolla was able to accommodate both a 17" Medium Wave and 12" Longwave FSL, in addition to our 3-man family and all their vacation accessories. This probably exceeded Toyota's maximum weight recommendation for the vehicle, but fortunately the Washington and Oregon highway patrolmen were looking in the other direction during the 4 hour trip to Rockaway Beach, Oregon. The Rockwork 4 ocean cliff near Manzanita had beautiful clear weather this early morning, with the entire turnoff free of "sleeping squatters." A quick check of the band at 1130 showed that it was fairly subdued, but DU signals started to pick up around 1200 with a mix of the usual New Zealand and Australian big guns. The Oz big guns on 576, 594, 774 and 828 were strong enough to dominate, and with Australia in serious play there wasn't much of a chance to go after the weaker Kiwis on their frequencies. The Maori parallels on 603 and 765 were strong as usual, and at 1239 Auckland's 603-Waatea reached an exceptional level with its beautiful Maori music. 675-RNZ did the same with a report by a female presenter at 1321, reaching its best-ever strength here at the Rockwork 4 cliff (stronger than 567 all morning). Although both New Zealand and Oz were in serious play there didn't seem to be the wild mixes that such propagation usually brings, except perhaps on 702 with 2BL fighting it out with Magic around 1300. 531 kHz seemed to buck the trend, with PI dominating all session long. Without exceptional Kiwi or Oz propagation there really wasn't much chance to go after exotic stations from either area, and Longwave NDB propagation from the South Pacific was missing in action (probably waiting for Tom R.'s arrival tomorrow morning :-) Despite multiple checks 558 didn't feature Polynesian choral music, although the rare Kiwi Radio Sport did seem to get its American English through at a fair level around 1305. Late on around 1325 the Oz stations started pushing the Kiwis off of contested frequencies before a general collapse in propagation around 1340. Overall the session was interesting, but Tom and Chuck will probably be happy to know that they didn't miss too much in the way of exotic DX this morning. (Recordings to follow in conclusion report later) 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Rockaway Beach, OR) DXing at the Rockwork 4 ocean cliff 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 17" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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