On Tuesday evening, I did some listening over at the salt-marsh site in Rowley, MA. With sunset close to 8:30 p.m. EDT at this near-solstice date, TA DX doesn't make much of a showing before 9 p.m. (0100 UTC). Usual low-latitude stuff like Mauritania-783, Canaries-1008 & 1179, Ceuta-1584, and numerous Spaniards were first "out of the box".
More surprising was a knockout signal from Egypt-864 at 9:48 p.m. and good signals from numerous higher latitude Europeans such as Ireland-567, Ireland-612, UK-693, Germany-756, and Switzerland-765. The real catch of the evening was the German on 666, certainly not a common catch any time of year. Near the shortest night of the year, this station was packing a remarkably strong signal at 9:55 p.m. EDT / 0155 UTC. I know that several New England coastal DXpeditions (and maybe also something in New Brunswick on Miscou Island) are slated for this "outdoor DX season". The Boston Area DXers are having their "DX Clams" event in Rockport, MA on 7 AUG. I think that it's worthwhile to provide any kind of conditions reports that can assist these upcoming efforts. Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt