A bizarre collection of monster FSL antennas crossed the bridge into Oregon at
the wacky hour of 0145, after having been crammed into an overloaded Toyota
Corolla for a one week trip. As such, the July 2016 Rockwork 4 International
DXpedition kicked off with an early start (most of the participants, including
Japanese DXers Hiroo Nakagawa and Satoshi Miyauchi, will arrive later this
week).
As is common at this wacky ocean side cliff (notorious for Murphy's Law), a
"sleeping squatter" occupied my usual antenna setup space, but four huge FSL
antennas were deployed anyway at the northern edge of the turnoff. One FSL was
used to record 531 kHz, two were used for South Pacific MW-DX reception and the
fourth was used for Longwave (which unfortunately was a propagation dud from
the South Pacific this morning). After the recent demise of Vancouver "traffic"
729 was also a prime target, but it failed to cooperate. The session was fairly
good for New Zealand reception, although the really exotic Kiwis on 531, 576,
585 and 936 stayed down in the noise. A couple of Australian big guns (531-4KZ
and 774-3LO) managed decent signals in and out, although others on 576, 702 and
891 were missing in action. 567-RNZ seems to have demolished most of its signal
along with its old tower-- it's now running a poor second to 675-Christchurch
as the RNZ flagship. Stars of the session were 531-PI with potent Samoan speech
for most of sunrise enhancement, and 603-Waatea with a 25-minute run of
beautiful Maori music from 1206-1231.
531 PI Auckland, NZ Strong female Samoan speech at 1214; trace of 4KZ
underneath at end
https://app.box.com/s/pe8gr1917b4vn3gccskee5gep6go7cft
531 Innisfail, Australia Pop music fighting it out with PI throughout
session; the usual ID jingle at 1209
https://app.box.com/s/phtsbdii0tatmxeb0qfq677it0emsa3i
603 Radio Waatea Vibrant Maori music at 1226; part of 25 minute potent run
https://app.box.com/s/982pn4hhi2tfrzhlepvg60z7fpa34k3y
More beautiful Maori music at 1230
https://app.box.com/s/ais2ir778xx4zzgjs86kkgddkod49nls
657 Star Wellington/ Tauranga, NZ Christian music at decent level // much
weaker 963 at 1232
https://app.box.com/s/cd63akjano1hziwuytiym8qce0ivhbqf
675 RNZ Christchurch, NZ Strongest RNZ outlet after the demise of 567's
old tower; good level Kiwi English speech at 1257
https://app.box.com/s/mv1mklx892mkn4b0vs2negjw47xive3g
738 Radio Polynesie Mahina, Tahiti The usual African music at a potent
level at 1251
https://app.box.com/s/unqd2glul8lxi1ux03mbcy41o053il9i
765 Radio Kahungunu Napier-Hastings, NZ Maori male speech // 603 at 1229;
not a bad signal for 2.5 kW
https://app.box.com/s/ds0ga322aujgbxto3m5ml02siwnbho5z
774 3LO Melbourne, Australia The strongest Oz station this morning, // a
much weaker 828. The usual ABC network interview at 1222
https://app.box.com/s/egf89xhr29obvisblm7cb9bzehid62jh
792 Radio Sport Hamilton, NZ "Fox Sports Radio" ID (as relayed by Radio
Sport after local midnight) with promo at 1220
https://app.box.com/s/um0gfok28blvq90n0eeoeuuoq3v5jzzy
1503 Radio Sport Wellington/ Christchurch, NZ Fox Sports Radio ad with
Yankee English accent // 792 at 1244
https://app.box.com/s/wed793j34pnu0thkulc3w8o7v716gs98
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (DXing at the Rockwork 4 ocean cliff near Manzanita, OR, USA)
7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralights (3)+
17" and 15" DXpedition FSL antennas (detailed ocean cliff setup photo posted at
https://app.box.com/s/fscdusr7ottw9gwlmbjata86nnhgr7id )
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