We all will agree about the much quieter tropical bands. However, when reading the loggings of the DXers in the USA and those of European DXers I have the impression that the American DXer is luckier in receiving these stations. The US DXers still hear stations which we also could hear in Europe quite easily in the past but hardly are heard here in Europe anymore. In October I was on Curacao, Netherlands Antilles and I could hear many tropical band stations from Latin America. So, these stations still exist and are also still heard in the USA but are difficult to be heard here in Europe. Do we have to wait till quieter conditions on the sun or are other parameters involved? Max van Arnhem The Netherlands
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens John Verzonden: donderdag 2 december 2004 21:35 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: [HCDX] Re: Tropical SW Bands Virtually Empty I would agree that the tropical bands are not as active as they were in the late-70s through about 1990 when I was much more active in TB DXing. Not to say that they are dead but they are much quieter (except for WWCR. WWRB and the like!!!) than they were when I started DXing in 1976. No real surprise here, as we will continue to see FM radio take over more from SW in the years to come, IMO. John Cereghin Smyrna DE _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.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 ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.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