Ah, but Haida Gwaii is off what is known as the
"north" coast in these parts Chuck. It
apparently makes a difference to the type of DX
that is heard, to be north rather than west.
And congratulations Tim.
73,
Nick
At 04:17 27-01-16, you wrote:
Walt -
How quickly they forget..... We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
Chuck
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA São Tomé into West Michigan tonight!
Great catch, Tim! I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
coast...73, Walt
On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp <[email protected]> wrote:
> After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few nights
> with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> just one notch above imaginary. If I didn't know what to listen for then
> I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY. Per a suggestion from Kaz
> himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> parallel to my north/south D-KAZ. This knocked down WCKY a bit more (more
> than I could achieve by using my remote null pot). With the D-KAZ switched
> to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
>
> Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure DX
> adrenaline!
>
> 73,
> Tim Tromp
> West Michigan
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