HI. I hope this don’t sound out of discussion, but about maybe 10 yrs ago.W went to a small "beach" on the river blackwater " estuary near were we live. I had recebtly got a cheap £3 world band radio,and it must have been 7pm BST and tide was in. tuning around the MW I found a reasonable station,but presenters accent i couldn’t place . Now here is the bit that cant have,but DID happen,it was a phone in chat show and were discussing Australia`s health system.Then the presenter said I was nearly the end of show and gave the name of the station in Sydney. Not long after that my local club gave a talk by the RF engineer on board a certain pirate radio station,,he was asked abt longest DX and held up a letter from someone in Australia giving all the details of what was heard.And said with 30Kw to a 1/4 wave in a perfect reflector and a steel ship approx 300` long I think tx were a couple of continentals . FYI.the last iteration of that stations seafaring days has/is being restored and is near us in our river . sorry for bandwidth and slightly slanted veiw of putting antennas on beaches. I have putting up a 1/4,held up by balloons and a rx loop now the flack Regards and73`s jon. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
