Another sunset skip session brought in almost any desired Kiwi station, with the low-powered signals on 549 (Trackside), 828 and 936 all making extended S9 runs from 0900-1000. Tony Ward's 990-Fiji Gold was testing the crunch resistance of my Ultralight, while the Pacific Island DU's on 630, 846, 1017 and 1098 all had S9 co-channels from A/NZ in their nulls. All the Magic stations on 702-738-891 were easy parallels, while the same was true of the NZB stations on 1008-1017-1026-1035-1044-1053. For some reason the Kiwi stations are kicking the Aussie stations all across the band, even after sunset in NZ is long over. There is zero propagation to Asia during this period-- a drastic change from December in Kona. Lots of overwhelming MP3 links to post, if only the ultra-slow Cook Island "Blue Sky" Internet system would cooperate. The going joke among both Kiwi and Yankee tourists is that Aitutaki is the ideal place to reconnect with your partner-- since Facebook is so slow that n obody tries to use it as a substitute for real communication.
Gary DeBock (DXing in Aitutaki, Cook Islands) 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
