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 DXing on Saturday and Sunday morning
suck all of the DX outta the air and split it among far too many
folks. Monday morning, the ionosphere is healing from the weekend of
overuse, so I DX Tuesday AM through Friday. Works like a charm,
since I discovered the pattern.
I fired up late this morning, thank goodness, and thought my antennas
had been seriously damaged while I was gone. At 1340, I had 774 JJ
at a 7 and nothing else! There were only four or five other hets. I
think that I would have turned it off, convinced of antenna damage,
except for the strangled early complaints from Dennis, Walt and
Colin. I switched to the Aussie antenna and was rewarded by a fair
DU opening and even caught the 747//774//828 Japanese, by far their
best on the Aussie loop! Must have been getting some kind of
backscatter bank shot for them to be coming from the Southwest.
The peak seemed to be about 1405 or 1410, about 15 minutes before
LSR. I'm sure that Walt did better from Victoria, but here are my
paltry gleanings:
Level 6 murmurs unless noted:
567 @7 DU
576 @7 DU
585
594
612 @8+ DU doing well
666
675 @7 DU
702 @7 DU
747 JJ
756 RNZ ID at 1406
765
774 JJ
819
828 JJ
873
Well, I didn't cause this disaster by becoming bored with all of the
East Asians.... It was great fun and a real privilege!!!
John B.
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