It was a classic late Fall Season morning here on Orcas Island. The
first two layers of Japanese were in and excellent at tune-in 80
minutes before dawn. By max dawn, they were down substantially, as
expected. The Chinese were mostly quite weak at tune-in, but were up
and doing well during
Right you are, Glenn!
By the way, the last time that I heard them, they played a Michael
Jackson number followed immediately by (I swear to you) some Farsi
rap music. I'm sorry that I didn't message you at the time as that
play list sounds right up your alley! Maybe you could check the web
As reported by others, it was a below average morning for TPs
here Many of the regulars were in during the first half of dawn
enhancement, when I was running up the band. However, all but the
Biggest Gun Japanese were only at threshold levels... oops, looking
at my notes, 972 Korea, 1377
Levels and numbers of audios were down here both early and at dawn.
The only things remarkable were that the opening, such as it was
seemed to extend up to 1377, rather than dropping way down at 1100
kHz. Also, I happened to pass 639-CNR1 on a peak. They were the only
Chinese in above
Just a reminder that the entries to the Fall Follies Ultralight
Contests are due by soon after your dawn tomorrow. Remember that you
DO NOT have to turn in your log for the Stations Heard contests,
just the total number of stations. The top scorer in each receiver
class will be asked for
Pete,
In general, KBS quit sending QSLs out some years ago and I
eventually gave up sending $$ and pleading letters. The only one
that I've gotten out of them in the last decade was the KBS Japanese
Service that QSLed me 2 years ago. I took a chance on that one
because it is an
Here on Orcas Island, Nov. 3 was a good but not great morning and
things seemed to be returning more to late season form: the Chinese
were more prominent than on the past several mornings and the JJs
were down a bit. This AM, the upper band had only 7 audios 90
minutes prior to dawn, but dawn
Friends,
Guy's reception of Farda from Grayland on a barefoot SRF-39FP
absolutely obliterates the old world record for distance in the
Barefoot Class. BRAVO, Guy I've already entered it in the
official records.
Guy Atkin's sez:
The highlight of my 2-night DXpedition over the weekend
Well, that will teach me to keep two lists (Current and Overall) and
only update one. I checked the wrong, un-updated, list when I so
happily declared Guy's Farda reception a World Record its not!
I missed the Current Record holder, Kevin Schanilec with his DU
reception which is just
Thanks to Colin and Patrick both for sharing their lists.
Maybe the increase that I'm seeing from this summer is just in my
head, or maybe it is just the better conditions affecting SRS, too.
Thank god for sideband reception!!!
John B.
At 11:17 AM 11/3/2008 -0800, you wrote:
John,
Friends,
The third time is the charm!!! I just added two entries to the
Firsts and Records List.
While Guy's reception of Farda in UAE from Grayland is not quite the
World Distance Record for Barefoot Ultralights, it is the very first
instance of hearing what is considered a TA station
Like the others, I had a second morning very like Nov. 1st: Good
conditions, strong orientation to Japan. The low band was about as
full of JJs as it ever gets, mostly at good levels; The high band had
more audio that most other AMs this season, but about half of it was
just whisper level.
Great job, Gary I'm glad that you finally hit one of the really
good TP mornings down there... and I'm especially glad that you did
so well with the DT-400W. Bravo all the way around.
John Bryant
At 08:51 PM 11/2/2008 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Guys,
Sometimes
Nigel and I were certainly listening to the same band this
morning it was all Japan, all the time. The onpening to Japan
was quite strong... maybe not quite the level of mid-September, but
good, never the less. Further, the upper half of the band was more
active than has been the norm
At 8:50 AM this morning, some genius driving a bulldozer on an
adjacent island did something wrong and knocked out all phone
connections between the five occupied islands and with the remainder
of the world. When I went to the grocery store after lunch, the
residents of this emerald isle were
This is just a reminder that all of the contests within the
Ultralight Fall Follies will close at your own local sunrise + 30
minutes on this coming Monday morning. We have had well over 200
people download the Participant's Packet from dxer.ca, so we expect
quite a number of entries. Please
This morning was sort of typical of somewhat disturbed conditions
here. Levels were down and, in general, the JJs were doing better
thaqn the mainland stations. About 2/3 of the lower band had at least
some audio on it, but things above 1100 were pretty sparse: 5 with
audio early, joined by 8
As noted by others, things were clearly down from yesterday, but
there were a few things of interest around. When I first checked at
1240, it was obvious that things were off some, but still, half the
slots below were full. My last check was between 1450 and 1510, whe
there were quite a few
I cannot remember conditions this good. I'll have to go back through
my records to see if I've ever heard so many channels in audio.
Below 1458, the only non-zero ending channels without at least
definite threshold audio were: 684, 729, 1125, 1161, 1233, 1341 and
1431. It was really
Dave,
My guess is that you are not a member of the ultralightdx group and,
possibly that you did not reread the Official Rules for the Fall
Follies. The Rules on time are very clear. I try to copy the irca
list on important ultralight business, but I failed to do so when I
responded to Kirk
Just like Saturday morning, Monday started out with a bang and just
about never slowed down. The bang at the start was finding audio on
549. Thanks to 25/2.5 kW KARI in Blaine, WA (20 saltwater miles from
me to my North) on 550 kHz., I don't think that that I've ever heard
audio here on
WOW
With dawn approaching 1445 here, I happened to be up at 1250 and
decided to give things a try. As usual in late October, the Japanese
were in at pretty darn good levels, by themselves (no co-chan CCs),
but what was unusual was the presence of a number of Korean stations,
some at
As has been the pattern, the later in October, the poorer are the
Japanese and the better the Chinese. This AM was no different, with
the bigger JJs still around, but hounded by CC signals over, under or
through them.
General conditions continued to improve here, with the lower half the
Gary, Guy and I found the two-page per subject format of our
serialized article on modifying the E100 quite restrictive. We were
able to give enough information in those articles for the experienced
tinkerer to do the modification, but there was not nearly enough room
to provide the
Gee, I'm sorry that so many others found conditions still pretty
poor I dunno where I'm getting the DX, but it is darn sure back
here on Orcas.
Yesterday, I had 30 audios on the bottom half, today it had just
increased to 33, but the levels were much better. Well more than half
of them
Yes, Patrick, you are correct
I'm under 20 all-saltwater miles from Vancouver, which I overlook
from my house and about the same distance from Victoria, through the
islands. I think that Colin momentarily forgot where I live. I
believe that the local QRM here is considerably worse than
Dennis!
Great work at Grayland Beach Those yurts are
nice, aren't they? I'd spotted number 80 as
another DXable yurt 114, 115, 116 and even
117 are also excellent possibilities.
I doubt that Mike has closed for good, since he
was really pleased when I was down there a couple
of
I had 35 audios this morning, but at least half were only
threshold. The lower band was in much better than the high band (5
only above 1044). China was dominant both early (1300 and at dawn
1430) Even the better audios were very up/down, with China and Japan
fighting it out on 747, 774,
We got back from our jaunt around the interior Pacific Northwest a
day or two early A great trip at the absolute peak of fall
foliage, but glad to be home Having been reading the mail as we
traveled, I feared that the conditions would be awful this morning. SHO' NUF!!!
The JJs
Just a reminder that the 2008 Ultralight Fall Follies DX Contests
start this Friday at 30 minutes prior to Local Sunset this coming
Friday and run until 30 minutes past Local Sunrise on the Monday 10
days later (October 24 thru Nov. 3). There are three separate
contests that DXers in the US
It will be interesting to learn what Walt Salmaniw heard in the
Charlottes. I did not start until 1355, 35 minutes before LSR. The
entire morning would fall in the low average category as far as I'm
concerned. There were fewer audios on the low band and darn near none
above 1100 (1206, 1242,
As you know the 2008 Fall Follies DX Contest is rapidly approaching
and Guy and I intend to help hold up the NW's reputation for long
distance reception. We have reserved Yurt #114 at Grayland Beach
State Park for Friday and Saturday nights, Oct 31 Nov. 1. That is
the last weekend of the
We've had a chance to clean up some gaps/goofs, etc. in the overall
World Record. Through some faulty communication with Dennis Vroom , I
never got the specifics of his record breaking barefoot reception of
VOA Thailand from Grayland back in April. I'd also not yet received
the details of
Sorry that Gary did not do better this AM. Things were clearly back
to normal here. I checked first at 1227, 2 hours before dawn here and
things were doing very nicely. At dawn enhancement, the lower half
of the dial was FULL of audio the only channels without at least
a 6 level were
Poo on alla my sack-rat buddies who checked it out early and gave up!
It kept getting better as we approached dawn, as it should and I
ended up with 23 TPs in audio, ten more than yesterday
Still, its all in how you look at it... glass 20% full or 80%
empty. Where yesterday all of the
I checked about 2 hours before dawn and found the NHK2 Big Guns in
audio... 747/774/828 and even 873. Yesterday, any JJ audio was
coming from the direction of Australia (west). Today, it was about
equal on the two antennas (W NW). Near dawn, there were also a
handful of DU audios, all below
You guys wondered how I always time it for the best conditions at
Grayland The secret is quite simple, really. As a member of the
post-employment cohort I'm privileged to DX at Grayland Monday
through Friday or more specifically, Tuesday morning through
Friday morning. All of you guys
New Ultralight BAREFOOT Class Loggings
Grayland, WA DXpedition 2008.10 (Oct 7-10)
John Bryant
Sony SRF-T615 Barefoot
567 JOIK NHK1 Sapporo 1409 10/10/2008
594 JOAK NHK1 Tokyo at 1124 10/08/2008
648 VoR, Ussuriysk, Russia in RR 1411 10/10/2008
657 Pyongyang Bangsong, Kangnam, North Korea 1351
New Ultralight Unlimited Class Loggings
Grayland, WA DXpedition 2008.10 (Oct 7-10)
John Bryant
Modified E100 + NW Wellbrook Phased Array
531 JOQG-NHK1 Morioka 10/7/2008 1140 (late, something behind that
was NOT DU. India???)
540 CNR1 Synchros 1407 10/7/2008 (only there late and poorly)
549
I enjoy setting interim goals for myself in DXing... beyond Country
and Station totals. One of these, for me, is trying to hear and then
QSL as many NHK1 and NHK2 pairs from Japan as I can. Almost every
mega-city in Japan has both an NHK 2 and NHK 2 station, and some of
the pairs are among
Yesterday, I was still having trouble believing that I'd heard KFQD
in Anchorage on the barefooted T615, right over the top of 50 kW
KXL-750 in nearby Portland, OR. Whilke I was at the local Library and
firmly hooked to the internet, I checked to see if the University of
South Carolina even
Well, sure enough, the propagation changed, and it DID move more
solidly to China and away from Japan. Frequencies like 837 and 1386
that had offered Japanese stations for the past two mornings were
solidly held by Chinese this morning. Unfortunately, overall signals
were down some, too, so
This morning seemed almost as good as yesterday morning, with audio
on most every channel for the last two hours before dawn. Some of the
channels were at murmur-level, or one notch up at language
recognition level, only. However, even a number of these latter
yielded to slight up-ticks which
Thanks to a long rainy drive and some in-route errands, I didn't make
it to the Grayland Motel until after 4:00PM. Thankfully, the
impending REAL storm held off long enough for me to get the NW
Wellbrook up while it was still light and in only a windblown drizzle.
My goals on this trip were
As far as I'm concerned, this is strictly up to the individual
DXer. For instance, I decided years ago that I wasn't going to
distinguish between my own personal records for Grayland and Orcas
Island, as far as TPs were concerned and I haven't and don't plan
to, EXCEPT where contests
No wonder that I heard 20-something new Ultralights was very
lucky to be at the right place and time, with all of my notes and Hit
List in hand. I didn't realize just how much fun I had until I read
how well my fellow TP-Chasers did this morning! Bravo for everyone!
I guess it is too
The way to cause new record reception is for the record-keeper to
(finally) update the records. I did that two days ago and was holding
them until I heard from one record holder about a typing error that I
think that I made.
Sure enough, last evening, Allen Willie heard KNX on 1070 with his
I was stunned to read Walter's Dullsville report for this
morning It was one of my best mornings ever from here. I had
audio on every single (non-zero-ending) channel from 531 through 1062
except for 549 and 1035! I'll admit that about half of those were
at the mumble-level of 6, but
Bruce,
They (CKMO) were truly running OC during at least parts of this
morning at dawn I'm 20 miles from the station, as you know, and
it was just a clean vertical spike on my scope.
John B.
At 05:19 PM 10/5/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Bruce Portzer wrote:
CKMO-900 seemed to be having
There was a lull in new Firsts and Records for the first half of the
summer. Since then, there have been many new country Firsts
established... Gary DeBock and I adding quite a few Pacific and Asian
countries and Allen Willie continuing his march through Asia and Africa.
Until Allen's
Congratulations, Joe!!!
Hey, find a bit of time to go through the log and make up a
submission for various awards you have earned a slug of them with
those 400+ stations!
John B.
At 08:52 AM 10/4/2008 -0400, you wrote:
Good morning,
Finding some time to check out the airwaves
I've began to notice that recoveries here, in the fall, are almost
always led by the Japanese stations coming back first to be
joined a day or so later by the Chinese and Koreans. That is what
was going on for me this morning was a good to excellent Japanese
morning, with just a few
Dennis,
Really glad to hear that your new Steve Ratzlaff-modified E100 has
paid off on its first morning. Having that external antenna port and
using the E100 with the EWE from the shack sure beats running outside
to hold the radio against the antenna, eh???
I think that you'll really like
I got the sense that Vroomski checked the band early, reported poor
cx and went back to bed this morning. Excellent choice, Dennis!!!
I had maybe 20 audios, with all but the biggest JJ guns at the 6--
murmur level and all but four below 1100. (1242, 1512, 1566, 1575.)
Really poor
I'm
A couple of people have noted difficulty finding the Contestant's
Package on DXer.ca. Thanks to website owner, Colin Newell, here is a
direct link:
http://tinyurl.com/ulr-dx-party
Or, you can search for the title, by sorting the files: The 2008
Fall-Follies Ultralight Contestant`s Package
Walter,
Our local downturn (even worse here, with no DU action) is totally
your fault you went and labeled yesterday's cx as Ho Hum. I've
found that every time that I admit publicly that I find the
conditions boring, the next morning is MUCH WORSE! I think that this
effect is closely
Well, things mighta been Ho-Hum in Victoria, but just 20 miles NE
(with a clear look up the Gulf of Georgia) things were HOPPING. In
fact, it was the first morning that there was more DX than I could
handle, live and I caught myself considering joining the Dark
Side with a Perseus
Friends,
The 2008 Fall Follies Ultralight Contestant Package has just been
posted to the official Ultralight Files Area on dxer.ca. There have
been a few changes in this Fall's contest, so reading the Rules
carefully would be a good idea. There are still three contests in
each of two
Yesterday's trip to the PO Box was a joy. a beautiful large-size
picture post card from Leilani Dahilig. Mrs. Dahilig is the station
manager at KTWG and it was her that I heard reading the daily Bible
verse on KTWG. She said that she'd gotten reports from Finland, Japan
and other places
I DXed from 1300 until 1430 fade this morning and found, essentially,
a repeat of yesterday, only even more interesting. Like yesterday,
China and the Koreas (plus Russia 576) came in quite well from early
until right around dawn, with the Japanese there, but most were not
doing too well.
Well, Poo!!!
I had a niggling feeling that I should look at PAL a bit more
thoroughly on that 720 JJ signal. I'll really have to watch for that
one in the future. Would be a nice QSL.
Thanks, Bruce!
John B.
I hate to be a party pooper, but the Voice of Russia has Japanese on
720
As Walt observed, it was an up and down morning, but VERY
interesting. I checked 576 first at 1254 (fade out was 1430) and
Mayak was walking tall with a solid 9. As soon as I turned on the
recorder, it stated to drop, of course, but I held on for the Bells
of Moscow and pips at 1300. Over the
Still adjusting to Pacific Time here, so my first pass was 2 hours
before dawn at 1208. I heard the now-usual NHK1 on 567 at an 8 and
expected the same thing on 576 NO! It was Russian!!! Was R.
Mayak probably from Petropavlosk (its a synchro channel for
Mayak). That was a very rare and
On returning home after three weeks, I'd hoped for a whole fist full
of QSLs but only had one envelope from Dudley Scantlebury,
Technical Administrator of RBG, Rhema Broadcasting Group in
Auckland. It was a treasure trove. Mr. Scantlebury inclosed 3 QSL
cards Rhema 1251 in Auckland,
Was up at 4AM local time, 1100 UT, with the body still on Eastern
time from Peru. Checked early and the usual JJ suspects were
there. Korea and China came along later and my general impression
was that it was an OK morning, but nothing special. With Local dawn
at 1403, I DXed seriously from
I made it just fine, but could not/did not want to DX from
pier. Used hotrodded E100 most of the time. Much better radio than
the 1103. Was 1 klick south of Pimentel on beach, with wire at 330
deg. Skunked on TPs, except for a brief het at 1115 dawn on 774. No
choice on antenna direction.
The 2008 Fall Follies Ultralight MW DX Contest
October 24 to November 3, 2008
Back by popular demand! With a new contest added to the mix and the
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Gary,
I hope/think that 675 CC was the CC News Station from Hohhot in Inner
Mongolia/China. Sure hope that you can ID it!
John B.
-- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: irca@hard-core-dx.com
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:30 AM
Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for
My reception this AM was a mere shadow of Walt's, of course, but
along the same lines: All Asia. The bottyom of the band NHK1s were in
again... this string has been better, more consistent for these NHK1s
in 500 and 600 kHz. bands that I've ever heard. Most of the other Big
Gun JJs were in,
Sorry,
I meant to have sent these out earlier. All receptions were on an
E100 modified with a 2.6 kHz Murata IF filter and connected directly
to a Wellbrook Phased Array pointed either NW to Asia or SW to Australia.
567 JOIK, NHK1 Sapporo Japan 8/22/2008 1226 NHK1 //594
648 V. of
I DXed from 1255 to 1350 with LSR about 1335
As reported by the majority of others, conditions were down here a
bit this morning, but with quite a few interesting ones... Many more
than usual low NHK1 outlets were present again and then several other
interesting Japanese: 891 NHK1 Sendai
Whew, you talk about jumping into an icy lake in
January Sumbuddy done stole alla my DX.
I was up early for the second AM in a row. With LSR just after 1330,
here is what I found at 1208 UTC (unnoted means a threshold 6 level):
*1208 UTC*
531
747
774 JJ @7
1377
Yesterday AM, I had over
I didn't make it up until 1258 and went directly to 1017 to see if I
could catch that CRI KK Service fanfare and ID at 1300. Wham! There
it was louder than I've ever heard it... clearly an armchair 9+! I
hit Record and, of course, the strength started to slide. Still, the
fanfare and ID
Barry,
Think of your EWE as the upper half of a loop antenna... the other
half is reflected in the ground. If you raise your EWE from 10' to
12' that is really adding 4 feet to its total height. The gain of a
loop is directly proportional to its area. In the ham world, its
somewhat
That's just about it average. I made one run up the dial at 1220
and found a number of the Chinese already in, along with the JJ Big
Guns. Was hopeful for a great Chinese morning. I began in earnest at
1255, a half hour from LSR. Very average, with China being slightly
favored. The only
DXed from 1255 until 1340. It was a very interesting and good
morning, almost exclusively Asian until quite late; I had 35 audios,
with well over half being at language recognition (7) or above. The
strongest stations were 963 the CRI RR Service at a very solid 9 and
HLAZ-1566 running a close
Nick, I started Listening at 1215, but my main stuff was from 1258 to
1320. What were you hearing, DUs???
John B.
At 03:51 PM 8/30/2008 +, you wrote:
At 13:32 8/30/2008, you wrote:
The title sez it all Had 25 in audio, most at threshold or
just a tick above. There were a few of
I had hoped that a modified E6, with its reported SSB capability,
could serve as a spotting receiver for my hotrodded E100 on my
upcoming adventure to coastal Peru. I now don't think that I'll take
it, but I did learn quite a few things while modifying the radio.
I've uploaded five photos to
Was the poorest AM of the last week or so, but there was still some
good Asian audio. As usual right now, Japan seemed favored, but not
by much. The pattern of enhancement seemed different this AM, with no
early boost on Asians and then a falling away about 10 or 15 minutes
before dawn (the
Got the full dawn today and it was another pretty good one to Japan,
especially. Had about 30 in audio, peaking about 15 minutes before
LSR and just ghosts of DU right at dawn. The most interesting was
TOH on 1062. I believe it was in Cantonese (6+) strength and had 2+1
time pips at TOH.
Just got the main 30 minutes before dawn this AM a GREAT Japanese
morning. It took me 20 minutes to get up the dial, with 42 audios and
more than half were 8s! It was mostly Japanese, though what I think
was Taiwan Fisheries was at a 9 on 738 (no audio on //s). There were
multiple showings
Boy, Bill,
You and I were listening to the same band As you know, I had a
great JJ morning, heavily weighted to the bottom half. I sure
hope that Walt was listening in the Queen Charlottes. Vroomski???
If there is a God and a heaven and the standards are low enough for
me to get in
I've enjoyed the notes about Google Earth as a DX Aid. When I was
planning my trip to Easter Island 18 months ago, they upgraded that
photo from useless/fuzzy to high resolution about 3 weeks before I
left. I was able to follow some of the rock/dirt roads around to the
prime DX spots and
Was up early this AM and made a first run at 1150. The strongest JJs
were in along with Chinese on 918, 963, a HUGE 1017 CNR KK Service
and 1377. I believe I had Taiwan Fisheries on 738 at 1200. Hets over
most of the band.
Started again at 1250 (LSR=1320) and the first 20 minutes was as good
Friday morning was my last DX session for this trip to Room 15 at the
Grayland Motel and it went much more as I had expected for
yesterday... less intense, more gentlemanly (in modern-speak, would
this be personly? Completely different meaning and poorly
spelled.) Conditions were down
KTWG from Grayland, and as
Patrick said, he has them fairly regularly but I sure don't ever
remember hearing them. Say, if this CRS gets any worse, I'll never
DX out the band!
John B.
At 02:35 PM 8/23/2008 -0700, you wrote:
John H. Bryant wrote:
I pretty much though that was going
I am appending below the report that I just posted on ultralightdx
about loggings this morning from Grayland. Walt Salmaniw, Patrick and
others might be interested in my overall perception of reception
conditions this AM.
Local sunrise was about 1325:
When I tuned in at 1120, there were
My wife accidently downloaded all of my e-mail yesterday to our home
computer, so it was not accessible to me when I hooked up to the WiFi
at the local library here. Later, I called her and she only had time
to read me Walter Salmaniw and Dennis Vroom's notes. Argh! On a
morning that
This is similar to Ultralight report, with additions/deletions:
The first morning started out with a bunch of DUs in at 1000 UTC,
before Japanese sunset. These were only the regulars and were all too
weak to be heard on the E100+Wellbrook Array. I went back to bed for
90 blissful minutes and
Guy and his family were here for the weekend and we managed to sneak
in a full dawn DX session this AM from 1200 to 1300. Since then,
the've headed back to Seattle and I've gotten packed and loaded for
Grayland (dawn ferry tomorrow AM.) I managed to pack my notes from
this morning. It was
Friends,
It was all Asia this AM until the last ten minutes before dawn. Then
the Asians were gone and the DUs came up to 7s. There were a lot of
interesting Asians this AM:
747//774//828 NHK was running advanced conversational Russian this
morning in the 1230 to 1300 time frame... nary a
Although the G6 is an enthusiasts radio and will not qualify as an
ultralight in contests, awards, etc., several of us are looking
longingly at it as a possible small spotting receiver for use
alongside a true Ultralight in trans-oceanic work The G6 is
equipped with SSB that works on MW
It was another very good transitional morning, with about thirty
audios. Today, for the first time, multiple Asians stayed in clear to
dawn fade and most of the DUs were quite late and weak. At 1251,
about 10 minutes to dawn, 774 Japan peaked at a solid 9 with the
Aussie audible, too, but
This morning was a repeat of yesterday at a somewhat reduced level.
Instead of 30 plus audios, it was more like 20 plus and there were
more 6s. Still, it was the current standard pattern of Asians early
(including multiple Chinese) and DU late. 774 Japan put in a very
solid 9 at its peak and
Paul,
I've completed all of the awards that we have records for and will
attach them to two additional e-mails. Here is what is coming your way:
Master International DXer: Barefoot
55 Countries Heard: Barefoot
Trans-Atlantic DXer: Unlimited (see below)
4 Continents Heard: Barefoot
4 Canadian
I couldn't cut a deal with the cat and so I actually set the alarm
and W*O*W, I hit my best morning of the last three months! Tuned it
at 1230 and the last audio checked out about 1313 (LSR = 1303).
It was pretty much a low and mid-band opening, with the Asians at
their high point (I assume)
At 01:17 PM 8/12/2008 +, Vroomski wrote:
Not much this morning, will be interesting to read what other dxers heard
this morning.
Sorry Dennis, the cat and I are having a disagreement as to when dawn
enhancement occurs. He is waking me about a half hour earlier than
necessary and then,
Was up early this AM and was rewarded with my best Asian AM so far.
It was there when I checked in at 1210, peaked around 1220 (LSR 1300)
and the Biggest signals stayed around until band fade a few minutes
before dawn. Things were no where near mid-season form, still
scattered and mostly weak,
Barry,
Another way to go with the pot is to get a 1K pot and put it in
series with a 500 ohm resistor. That really gives you a big soft null
to fine tune. I've NEVER experienced an antenna in the EWE, Flag,
Pennant or KAZ family that had its null very much above 1000
ohms. Nowhere near
I agree completely, Patrick.
John B.
At 06:09 PM 8/11/2008 -0700, you wrote:
John,
I have found a poor ground ups the impediance. At least here, with
swampy soil, it is hard to have poor ground. So maybe it is the area
here.
I have found the matching transformer seem to be less of an
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