Yes, it was nuts; I stand by this morning's assessment. Big signals from
unusual stations like 711, 639 etc. Little signals from Lord knows what, but
quite a lot of Chinese. The north Flag was really producing today.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at
The great conditions continue...
Reports to follow. - listening since 1200U
The ionosphere is open for business.
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
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With the exception of HLCA 972, reception of TP signals this morning wasn’t as
good as yesterday.
567 JOIK barely audible at 1222.
594 JOAK barely audible at 1209; poor at 1248-1250.
603 unID barely audible signal at 1250.
747 JOIB poor at 1119; barely audible to poor at
Let's just say I was hearing bits of CNR1-639, as it was fading down,
on a barefoot CC Skywave.
972 was likely the "best", somewhat readable, but 594 and 774 not far
behind. Even the Korean on 657 was making an impression.
This was all around 1415UT, and I was doing it all wrong, hearing a
Absolutely, very powerful bottom half of the band. Impressive reception on
just about every 9 kHz channel. Armchair levels on 576, 567, 603, and esp
594. All Asian. Even 657 is well heard here with presumed North Korea at
good levels (for whatever reason, I rarely hear them at my Victoria
Thanks Mark. Kaz reminds us that D-KAZ Aspect Ratio is important to a good
EZNEC result so, presumably, the same is true in real antenna life.
One of the measurement runs I've made for the upcoming D-KAZ Cookbook
compared two different apex heights.
Cheers!
Mark Durenberger
-Original
Who messed with the ionosphere this morning? I don't know if Colin or Nick
stayed on the band until around 1445, but it was even wackier than yesterday.
864-HLKR and 963-CRI were pounding in at S9 on the 5" Frequent Flyer FSL, and
1143-BEL3 and 1044-CRI weren't far behind. 837 had a mix of NHK1
Andare the Asian signals (their carriers) actually stronger on
the Kaz than on the Superloop, or is the "carrier to noise" ratio
better on the Kaz?You should be able to tell that by looking at
small portion of the Elad's display
If the interference level (noise / domestic splatter) is
Very nice. Unfortunately I am not sure how I am going to get past WAUK in
that general direction. 73 and nice catch. KAZ
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:36 AM Tim Tromp wrote:
> Heard a couple of nights ago in West Michigan for the first time:
>
> https://youtu.be/J7OcQIr5_cA
>
> The time pips and
Hi Mark,
A fair number of Asians made it to PEI in 2012
using just a Superloop with a FLG100. In 2016,
only one Asian, the Korean jammer on 1053, but
4QD's readily identifiable 10Hz high carrier made it through on a DKaz.
I would think that there should be plenty of
possibility this
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A nice TP morning in CO! I listened from 1031 to 1322. LSR at 1321. JOIB and
HLCA still going strong at LSR. I did multiple A vs B comparisons between the
NW Corner-Fed loop (~300 degrees) and the W Single KAZ (~260 degrees). The KAZ
was clearly the superior antenna. JOIB
Mark C, your tall DKAZ idea should work as a decent compromise. I am
surprised that the real low end seems not to provide really good F/B no
matter what I do. I changed to 30 ft high rather than 40 and while you lose
3 dB signal at 530 KHz, the pattern is somewhat better, but still not as
good as
Heard a couple of nights ago in West Michigan for the first time:
https://youtu.be/J7OcQIr5_cA
The time pips and music at the top of the hour really cut through CBK at
03:00 UTC. Hopefully this helps someone else add Hungary to their logbook,
even if they think CBK (or CBT?) are too strong to
You guys out west did a lot better than I did in IL this morning as DU's
took a huge dump this morning. I also wasn't terribly impressed with
domestics to the far west but need to check recording when I get home.
Sunrise, much of this fine month has required me to often listen for
domestic DX by
Craig I am surprised that JJ's are so much better on your KAZ that is aimed
at least 40 deg from them than on your Superloop basically aimed right at
them. Your Superloop is 45 x 20 ft so 900 sq ft under it.
What is the height (bottom wire to apex) of your 72 ft KAZ? 73 KAZ worried
something
My thinking on antennas is the same as below: Getting rid of or reducing
interference and noise is the best way to hear what's left - the signal.
Because usually when you try to increase the signal, you also increase
the noise (at least, the noise that's in the same path as the signal),
yes?
Aha, you got the 22 October surprise Gary. I thought that never
happened there?
Actually, nothing like the 22 October boost happened here, although
conditions continued to be fairly good up to near 1500UT.
best wishes,
Nick
At 15:34 2018-10-25, Gary DeBock wrote:
Who messed with the
Thanks for running this Chuck and to Nick for making the results readable.
I’ll repeat a request I made a few days ago - any chance of adding a column for
1MHz?
My impression is that there is not a linear degradation in gain on the DKAZ but
that it falls off more rapidly below 700 or 800 kHz.
Another day, another dawn of great conditions on the West Coast -- some of
my notes...
TIMEFREQUENCYSTATION NOTES
UTC KHZ Call-Sign Details
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1215819 DPRK North Korea - at absurd levels on the N
Bill -
I'll try to get around to it shortly, even if I am sick of running the
simulations.
Chuck
From: IRCA on behalf of bill [his.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 1:43 PM
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re:
As others have reported, conditions were good this morning with many of
the usual Asians putting in decent signals. The most interesting
receptions here were in the 700's and 800's, with stations on 783, 792,
801, 837, 846, and 855 almost but not quite strong enough to produce
identifiable
Here's an updated data set on the DKAZ and Corner Fed Loop.
DKAZ
LENGTH .5 MHZ GAIN 1.5 MHZ GAIN.5 MHZ F/B
AND TERM1.5 MHZ F/B
AND TERMRDF .5 MHZ RDF 1.5 MHZ 3 DB WIDTH
(.5 and 1.5 MHZ) 6 DB WIDTH
(.5 and 1.5 MHZ)
100 -61.1 -34.6 35.1 (1150)
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Kaz,
I was surprised at the difference as well. The bottom wire of the KAZ is 2 ft.
off of the ground, the apex is 18 ft. above the bottom wire.
Craig
On Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12:03:04 PM MDT, Mark Pettifor
wrote:
My thinking on antennas is the same as
For Chuck and others, I found some years back that if I sent a draft to myself
first and then edited it and re-sent it, I could minimize that problem, but
it's more work than some may want to put into it.
Russ Edmunds
WB2BJH
Blue Bell, PA
Grid FN20id
From:
I've posted Chuck's tabulated results at
http://www3.telus.net/public/shallpat/4all/DKAZ_and_flag_size_comparisons.pdf
Hate to think of the work he has put into this going to waste because
of the mail limitation. It's good information, and this has been a
really worthwhile discussion.
best
Russ:
The formatting is perfect in my email reader (Outlook).
I'll decline the opportunity to reformat for various email readers since Nick
posted the original file..
Chuck
From: IRCA on behalf of Russ Edmunds
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 12:39 PM
Wow, where to start? Even though I was only doing live DXing with a tiny
5" FSL antenna the conditions were so astonishing that there's no real way to
write a report that would do justice to the exceptional Asian propagation.
Thanks to Colin and Nick for their earlier detailed reports--
Heya guys. You west coast guys are getting some awesome logs, fingers crossed
you guys will submit your best logs to DXWW. This is not required, but if you
do please consider sending you logs in this format:
Freq Country Station. Month Day UTC - details
Many thanks for the awesome logs, and
Thanks for the tip! Good idea.
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Brandon Jordan wrote:
>
> Heya guys. You west coast guys are getting some awesome logs, fingers crossed
> you guys will submit your best logs to DXWW. This is not required, but if you
> do
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Thanks for running the simulations Chuck. Thanks for the formatting assist
Nick. That’s great stuff!
Craig
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 3:26 PM, Chuck Hutton wrote:
>
> Bill -
>
>
> I'll try to get around to it shortly, even if I am sick of running the
>
Huh, seriously, what's so good about getting Vision 1611 in IL with a TIS
on 1620 two miles away? Or 4RK 837, or 4QB/4QO 855? Or Tonga 1017, or
trace audio from R.Haanji 1674, or this morning trace audio from Magic 702?
Oh and re: 702 the carrier from Magic from Auckland is slightly higher in
Thank goodness... I’m exhausted...
Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -
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Another good morning. Slightly less Asians today, and slightly more
DU. The biggest surprise was catching the ABC news fanfare on 1305.
That was a new one for me, and Australia #60. After hearing KICY the
other day for my 1st Alaskan, KJNP made it today for my 2nd.
531 4KZ
Thanks for reformatting and posting this, Nick! The 18 X 18 corner fed loop
looks better than I expected; I may try this with a FLG100LN in the limited
space I'll have at Cape Lookout in a few days.
73,
Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
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Heya just an fyi the drive hasn’t arrived, perhaps tomorrow. I took a fresh
listen this morning and there is lots of very interesting propagation there.
Kinda wish I would have taken the time to DX the recording and done a decent
report.
73,
Brandon
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Nick
Totally agree with Bruce!972 was my Korean winner this morning with
armchair copy. I'll attach a clip when I get home, as well as a
summary..Walt
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:59 PM Bruce Portzer wrote:
> As others have reported, conditions were good this morning with many of
> the usual
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Guy,
Here's hoping you have a great time at Cape Lookout and that current conditions
continue through your stay! I have two collapsible 20 ft. fiberglass fishing
poles. 18' x 18' Corner fed loop, hmmm.
Craig BarnesWheat Ridge, CO
On Thursday, October 25, 2018,
I would expect a higher signal level on your S-meter from the superloop. Do
you have a few stations to your west to compare daytimes? 73 KAZ
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 2:11 PM C B via IRCA wrote:
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>
>
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If you could get some other Trans Pacific DXers further inland to
submit their loggings, that would be great as well. 7RN is Michigan
is pretty hot DX for example, and Kaz's logbook sounds like it's
pretty spectacular.
best wishes,
Nick
At 23:49 2018-10-25, Brandon Jordan wrote:
Heya
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I concur: the PDF presentation of the data saved me time since I was about to
paste it into Excel, or rather its Open Office clone, here.
The 18 x 18 ft. corner fed loop (a.k.a. SuperLoop?) does look pretty good.
I've always had pretty good luck at the shore with a 6.6 x
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