:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2013 Dec 09 2105 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
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# Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 December follow.
Solar flux 168 and estimated planetary A-index 4.
The
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2013 Dec 10 0010 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
#
# Geophysical Alert Message
#
Solar-terrestrial indices for 09 December follow.
Solar flux 168 and estimated planetary A-index 5.
The
DXers in NE and MN have reported KMLB Louisiana at night, possibly running 4KW
daytime power - or at least something awry there providing us with a DX
opportunity.
That may be in part because WKFN TN (ESPN) is now running its proper night-time
pattern and power. I notified them something was
Not quite as bad as yesterday, but still pretty bad
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,
at least briefly):
not even remotely
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it
understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash
Today was not as bad as yesterday, but not by much. A handful of
stations produced something resembling audio.
Good - Mostly understandable
Nobody
Fair - some of it kinda sorta understandable to someone who knows the
language, I think
1557Taiwan, mellow Chinese talk 1528, then pop music
I'm hoping one of the more experienced antenna builders can offer some
advice. I live in a deed restricted community that does not allow for
outdoor radio antennas of any kind. They also forbid things like
flagpoles, etc.
Over the course of six years, I've been able to bend these rules a bit
I'm sure Kaz himself will weigh in here, Les, but the original
version of the Kaz that I recall was 10' high with a 40' vertical
section. John Bryant wrote it up, and found that it didn't have
quite enough signal output for his tastes, but that was in the days
before the FLG100 amplifier
Nick -
I bet you meant 10' high with a 40' horizontal section.
My personal opinion: a 10 x 40 delta is OK for normal domestic DX where
directivity is more important than hearing a very weak solitary signal on an
empty channel.
Chuck
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 07:09:05 +
To:
I know with the EWE antennas, the higher the vertical element the better. My
old SW EWE has 25' elements and it has always worked great. The NE EWE has 16
foot elements and does not have near the gain, but that is all I can do to the
NE.
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KGED QSL
