As reported previously the transoceanic propagation was awesome yesterday
at the Rockwork 6 Highway turnoff, resulting in multiple rare Kiwi receptions,
and also S9 signals from stations like 7RN in Tasmania. The obscure NZ stations
531-More FM, 558-Radio Sport and 576-Star are usually a challenge to track
down, but 585-Radio Ngati Porou borders on the monumental (it hadn't been heard
at the Rockwork cliff for 4 years). All of them showed up during yesterday's
phenomenal session, though.
Once again the "sleeping squatters" made our antenna setup interesting,
and Craig and I were together at Rockwork 6 while Tom and Nick set up at
Rockwork 4. Nick also set up some monitoring gear at our Rockwork 6 turnoff in
the hope of comparing DU-DX signals at the two locations (which Craig and I
guarded with our lives against the sleeping squatters).
When the first FSL antenna was set up to monitor 531 kHz in the total
darkness at 1155 UTC it immediately tracked down an overwhelming S9+ signal
from 531-PI in Auckland, which proved to be a harbinger of things to come
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/819m794mvc4gdym5b06smy19aqhooofi
Before 1200 the rare Kiwis got into gear, along with S9 signals from
585-7RN, 702-2BL and 774-3LO. 531-More FM drowned out co-channel PI at 1247,
while 558-Fiji showed up with potent strength at 1325. 1017-Tonga was again in
and out at S9, of course. By the way, Craig is becoming a very skillful live
DXer and FSL operator-- and certainly demonstrated that ability this morning.
Overall it was a very thrilling session!
531 More FM Alexandra, NZ (2 kW) Potent modern rock music all alone
at 1247, with typical short, choppy ID's (male and female, Yankee-accented) at
27 and 28 seconds
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9z4bvsz7zd037grhwl5iwdrppm94m6rl
558 Radio Sport Invercargill, NZ One of the tougher Kiwis came through
with Yankee-accented Fox Sports News relay // 792 at 1307, showing up for the
first time in three years
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/dnkj6fqkviu8g57hw5mzcm00xae62ibr
576 Star Hamilton, NZ (2.5 kW) The "dwarf Star" manages music under
2RN at 1253 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xekx5gb4chsdr1njlc4kkd4mlxw630h3
which is parallel to 657-Star at the time
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ipl15obsn5w55qtdgdjzyit65h6918lb
585 7RN Hobart, Tasmania Powerful signal with female speech at 1249
(with the 576-2RN parallel confirmed at 31 seconds)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wpqm0pjh1f1cj8nlzzo93jclvrd46clg
585 Radio Ngati Porou Ruatoria, NZ (2 kW) One of the rarest possible
catches from NZ. During the 7RN recording some choral music is audible under
Tasmania, and after about a minute I decided to check for a Maori net parallel
on 603-Waatea (at 2:08 into the recording). Much to my surprise 603 had the
same choral music, nailing down reception of this station with legendary
weakness (for the first time in 4 years)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wpqm0pjh1f1cj8nlzzo93jclvrd46clg
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (DXing with Craig Barnes at the Rockwork 6 ocean cliff turnoff on
Highway 101 near Manzanita, OR, USA)
7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB & XHDATA D-808 portables +
15", 15" and 17" airport-closing FSL antennas
Four DXer session photo is posted at
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1vvrv5cyfl7di16ba5sv3u7mkx1fkeqf
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