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Hi Bill. It will be interesting to see what you do get as compared to recent
PEI, MA, and NJ DXpeditions. Your TA fade-in times are about a half hour ahead
of here on the Cape, no surprise since you have better antennas there, likely
less line noise + domestic slop, and are roughly 150 miles farther east.
Albania TWR 1394.91a, UK 693 / 882 / 909 / 1089 / 1215, France TWR 1467,
Moldova TWR 999, and Saudi Arabia 1521 were among the first good signals fading
in at the Orleans, MA site last week. Algeria (including 1550 duking it out
with WNTN), Spain, Morocco, Canaries, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Italy, Romania,
and others quickly followed. 4 p.m. / 2100 UTC was pretty much prime time with
most of the players on the field by then. Domestic slop became more an issue
an hour later.
On the Orleans outing the heavy static crashes were an impediment to getting
much out of many lower power British locals that otherwise would have been in
the clear. Manx Radio 1368 had a good signal (judging by carrier height on the
spectrum plot) but was being double-whammied by sloppy adjacent WDEA as well as
monster T-storm static ... a major headache producer with the headphones on. I
think that the lower power Brits will have a much better go of it this week.
How did you get the 23 ft. masts up there Bill? I'd imagine this was a
driving rather than flying trip. Which Vactrol scheme are you using, something
you built yourself or the set-up for Colin Newell (derived from some variation
of my design or Lankford's)?
I have had zero luck here with TP's so far on pre-dawn scheduled recordings
even though Chris Black managed a couple of Japanese less than two miles from
here a few years back, Bruce Conti's has had several TP's/DU's in NH about 100
miles Japan-ward from here, and I had the 1053 Korean jammer at dawn in East
Harwich, MA (8 miles east of here) about 15 years ago. 1566, which should be a
"primo" channel, gets mercilessly blasted by slop from 1560 WFME and 1570 CJLV
/ WMVX.
My pre-dawn recordings don't even have much from Mexico or western US / Canada.
Generally I'm looking at just the same bunch of pesty Cubans that rule the
roost around midnight local.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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From: Bill Whitacre <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 11:19 am
Subject: [NRC-AM] DXpedition near Lubec, Maine
Sitting in the library for wifi here in Lubec, Maine waiting for the highest
tide ever thanks to the ‘super moon.’ I’m at two sites with one 160’ DKAZ at
57 deg. and another a short distance away at 100 deg. Both are ‘traditional’
23’ mast versions with Vactrol Rt.
No internet at either location so paralleling with on-line streaming is out.
Will make a positive ID on things like South Africa on 828 a bit of a
challenge. That’ll have to wait ’til I get a chance to listen to wav files and
pull some song titles hoping that they may actually be logged by the station …
bit of a long-shot I fear.
What I’ve noted so far is that despite the unsettled conditions things are
coming in pretty well … and fading in pretty early compared with ‘back home’ in
DC. ‘Early’ means hearing audio from 1900utc onwards from the likes of the UK
on 1215 and 909 as well as Albania on 1395 [or thereabouts] and a few Spanish
outlets. By 1930 some more interesting stuff starts to come in and by 2000utc
we’re in full-on DXp mode.
Past couple of morning I’ve watched TP carriers on 774, 972, 1593 fading up
after 1000utc and lasting as late as 1100utc in the case of 1593.
More as I get a chance to go thru wav files.
Bill Whitacre
Lubec, Maine
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