Things continued to be transitional this morning and conditions were
relatively poor. The big Asians were in early, but stayed this time
and there were only a few DUs about... at very poor levels... and
everything continued to be best on the Asia wire.
The DUs in Audio: 612, 675, 756
The Asi
In some ways, it wasn't that great... there weren't that many signals
around. And it was a July classic of Asia early and DU late, but what
WAS there was pretty wonderful... I listened from 1200 to 1245. The
first sweep up the band showed 747 and 774 JJs, with 774 leading. The
second time up t
It was a very pedestrian morning, with everything (what there was)
off the Asian wire again, even the DUs. Listened from 1225 to 1250 (LSR = 1245)
All DUs or not sures, all 6s unless noted
567
612
621 Sounded DU, 3RN Melbourne ??? Not common
675
702
756
765
774 DU or JJ???
918 very briefly, 5
I slept in this AM and only caught the last ten minutes before dawn
(1247 LSR), so if there was an earlier Asian opening, I wasn't there
for it. The DUs were all on the Asia wire again, and both sparse and
weak. I had poor 6 level audio on 612, 621, 702, 765, 774, 963 and a
huge carrier on 109
Conditions were dramatically better this morning, with an unusually
strong showing from both DU and the JJ powerhouses. Most unusually,
the normal early JJ peak about a half hour before sunrise was
accompanied by strong signals from some of the DUs. Since usually,
even at Grayland, either the D
Things were much reduced from yesterday, but not horrible. From the
early upload by Walt Salmaniw, I'd say that the relationship between
his location/antennas and mine is back to normal. He hears DU a bit
better usually and I hear JJ and China a bit better.
DXed from 1220 until 1250, just af
I finally got time to try cutting a small ferrite bar on my
diamond-bladed tile saw. I'd been cautioned to use plenty of water
so as not to damage the annealing. I did. It cut VERY easily and
cleanly. I could tell no rise in temperature by touch, immediately
after making the cut. It worked li
Walter,
Darn it, I missed a good morning! Up at 1145, but both the cat and I
decided to go back to the warm bed "for a few minutes."
I'll darn sure be at the dials tomorrow!
John B.
At 06:33 AM 8/2/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Got up early this morning, and monitored the bands between 12:08
For once, Walt and I heard the same things... almost exactly. We
DXed exactly the same time period, too. The only things of his that
I missed were the LWs and1475 that I almost never check, the 6-level
audios on 738 and 639.
I did catch a handful of the very brief peaks that he did not: two
Walter,
As you might have suspected, I transposed the numbers on that Maori
station Mine was 765, too 675 was Christchurch as
usual. Geez, I'm glad that I'm old gotta built in excuse
Yes, nurse is the game room open and when is dinner
Sorry!
John B.
At 03:08 PM 8/3/20
Veery Pedestrian morning and, essentially, a repeat of yesterday
with the volume turned down a notch.
DXed from 1220 to 1255
All the usual suspects were there at their normal times. The JJ Big
Gun trio (747//774//828) were there at almost equal-level 7s and 972
South Korea showed an anemi
I DXed from 1230 until 1300. And the pattern for me seemed like the
last week or so... maybe the last month: JJ early and DU late. All
signals, except the JJs were 6s.
531
585
621
702
747 Best of the three JJs, hit 8 at 1235
756
774
828
855 (Both DU and NK hets. NK high as usual)
972
1053 Larg
Fellas,
No TP DXing for me yesterday morning or this... Yesterday, it was "a
quick run ashore" for some tile for the last part of our house (my
shower). That meant being at the ferry landing 7 miles away well
before dawn its tourist season. Turned out to be the ferry ride
from hell... fe
If this AM had been in October, it would probably have been a
"Korean Morning." As it was, it was the usual Asia early and DU
late, with the Asia being better than most other mornings so far and
the DU being quite attenuated. The hets that didn't make it to audio
were almost all early and on
Was up early this AM and was rewarded with my best Asian AM so far.
It was there when I checked in at 1210, peaked around 1220 (LSR 1300)
and the Biggest signals stayed around until band fade a few minutes
before dawn. Things were no where near mid-season form, still
scattered and mostly weak,
Barry,
Another way to go with the pot is to get a 1K pot and put it in
series with a 500 ohm resistor. That really gives you a big soft null
to fine tune. I've NEVER experienced an antenna in the EWE, Flag,
Pennant or KAZ family that had its null very much above 1000
ohms. Nowhere near 2000,
I agree completely, Patrick.
John B.
At 06:09 PM 8/11/2008 -0700, you wrote:
John,
I have found a poor ground ups the impediance. At least here, with
swampy soil, it is hard to have poor ground. So maybe it is the area
here.
I have found the matching transformer seem to be less of an issue,
At 01:17 PM 8/12/2008 +, Vroomski wrote:
Not much this morning, will be interesting to read what other dxers heard
this morning.
Sorry Dennis, the cat and I are having a disagreement as to when dawn
enhancement occurs. He is waking me about a half hour earlier than
necessary and then, for
I couldn't cut a deal with the cat and so I actually set the alarm
and W*O*W, I hit my best morning of the last three months! Tuned it
at 1230 and the last audio checked out about 1313 (LSR = 1303).
It was pretty much a low and mid-band opening, with the Asians at
their high point (I assume) w
This morning was a repeat of yesterday at a somewhat reduced level.
Instead of 30 plus audios, it was more like 20 plus and there were
more 6s. Still, it was the current standard pattern of Asians early
(including multiple Chinese) and DU late. 774 Japan put in a very
solid 9 at its peak and 96
Paul,
I've completed all of the awards that we have records for and will
attach them to two additional e-mails. Here is what is coming your way:
Master International DXer: Barefoot
55 Countries Heard: Barefoot
Trans-Atlantic DXer: Unlimited (see below)
4 Continents Heard: Barefoot
4 Canadian P
It was another very good transitional morning, with about thirty
audios. Today, for the first time, multiple Asians stayed in clear to
dawn fade and most of the DUs were quite late and weak. At 1251,
about 10 minutes to dawn, 774 Japan peaked at a solid 9 with the
Aussie audible, too, but far
Friends,
It was all Asia this AM until the last ten minutes before dawn. Then
the Asians were gone and the DUs came up to 7s. There were a lot of
interesting Asians this AM:
747//774//828 NHK was running advanced conversational Russian this
morning in the 1230 to 1300 time frame... nary a bi
Although the G6 is an "enthusiasts" radio and will not qualify as an
ultralight in contests, awards, etc., several of us are looking
longingly at it as a possible small "spotting receiver" for use
alongside a true Ultralight in trans-oceanic work The G6 is
equipped with SSB that works on MW
Guy and his family were here for the weekend and we managed to sneak
in a full dawn DX session this AM from 1200 to 1300. Since then,
the've headed back to Seattle and I've gotten packed and loaded for
Grayland (dawn ferry tomorrow AM.) I managed to pack my notes from
this morning. It was an
This is similar to Ultralight report, with additions/deletions:
The first morning started out with a bunch of DUs in at 1000 UTC,
before Japanese sunset. These were only the regulars and were all too
weak to be heard on the E100+Wellbrook Array. I went back to bed for
90 blissful minutes and s
My wife accidently downloaded all of my e-mail yesterday to our home
computer, so it was not accessible to me when I hooked up to the WiFi
at the local library here. Later, I called her and she only had time
to read me Walter Salmaniw and Dennis Vroom's notes. Argh! On a
morning that Denn
I am appending below the report that I just posted on ultralightdx
about loggings this morning from Grayland. Walt Salmaniw, Patrick and
others might be interested in my overall perception of reception
conditions this AM.
Local sunrise was about 1325:
When I tuned in at 1120, there were quite
Friday morning was my last DX session for this trip to Room 15 at the
Grayland Motel and it went much more as I had expected for
yesterday... less intense, more gentlemanly (in modern-speak, would
this be "personly?" Completely different meaning and poorly
spelled.) Conditions were down notic
at others have heard KTWG from Grayland, and as
Patrick said, he has them fairly regularly but I sure don't ever
remember hearing them. Say, if this CRS gets any worse, I'll never
DX out the band!
John B.
At 02:35 PM 8/23/2008 -0700, you wrote:
John H. Bryant wrote:
I pre
Was up early this AM and made a first run at 1150. The strongest JJs
were in along with Chinese on 918, 963, a HUGE 1017 CNR KK Service
and 1377. I believe I had Taiwan Fisheries on 738 at 1200. Hets over
most of the band.
Started again at 1250 (LSR=1320) and the first 20 minutes was as good
Just got the main 30 minutes before dawn this AM a GREAT Japanese
morning. It took me 20 minutes to get up the dial, with 42 audios and
more than half were 8s! It was mostly Japanese, though what I think
was Taiwan Fisheries was at a 9 on 738 (no audio on //s). There were
multiple showings
Boy, Bill,
You and I were listening to the same band As you know, I had a
great JJ morning, heavily weighted to the bottom half. I sure
hope that Walt was listening in the Queen Charlottes. Vroomski???
If there is a God and a heaven and the standards are low enough for
me to get in
I've enjoyed the notes about Google Earth as a DX Aid. When I was
planning my trip to Easter Island 18 months ago, they upgraded that
photo from useless/fuzzy to high resolution about 3 weeks before I
left. I was able to follow some of the rock/dirt roads around to the
prime DX spots and sele
The cat is getting old and erratic like his "daddy." I only got the
last fading ten minutes of TPs. All the Japanese and South Korean
Big Guns were (still ) in, some nicely, along with 612, 1512 and
1701+ of the DUs. The major interest here was 675 which was on the
threshold of language recog
Got the full dawn today and it was another pretty good one to Japan,
especially. Had about 30 in audio, peaking about 15 minutes before
LSR and just ghosts of DU right at dawn. The most interesting was
TOH on 1062. I believe it was in Cantonese (6+) strength and had 2+1
time pips at TOH. Pro
It was really strange this morning Had right at the current
"usual" 30 audios for a good Asian morning, but only 9 of them were
at all above a threshold 6. The good mornings the last week or so
have had at least double that number hitting 7, 8s and above. The 30
were the usual suspects, wi
Was the poorest AM of the last week or so, but there was still some
good Asian audio. As usual right now, Japan seemed favored, but not
by much. The pattern of enhancement seemed different this AM, with no
early boost on Asians and then a falling away about 10 or 15 minutes
before dawn (the pa
The title sez it all Had 25 in audio, most at threshold or just a
tick above. There were a few of interest: 765 seemed to be JJ (not
completely sure) which would be one of two JJ commercial outlets that
are rarely heard here. 1017 had two signals on it all AM, presumably
CNR KK Svc and Japa
Nick, I started Listening at 1215, but my main stuff was from 1258 to
1320. What were you hearing, DUs???
John B.
At 03:51 PM 8/30/2008 +, you wrote:
At 13:32 8/30/2008, you wrote:
>The title sez it all Had 25 in audio, most at threshold or
just a tick above. There were a few of
I had hoped that a modified E6, with its reported SSB capability,
could serve as a spotting receiver for my hotrodded E100 on my
upcoming adventure to coastal Peru. I now don't think that I'll take
it, but I did learn quite a few things while modifying the radio.
I've uploaded five photos to
Colin,
You are more than welcome to use my notes on the G6 on dxer.ca, with
your review. I'm complimented!
John B.
At 06:08 PM 8/30/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>
> I had hoped that a modified E6, with its reported SSB capability,
> could serve as a spotting receiver for my hotrodded E100 on my
DXed from 1255 until 1340. It was a very interesting and "good"
morning, almost exclusively Asian until quite late; I had 35 audios,
with well over half being at language recognition (7) or above. The
strongest stations were 963 the CRI RR Service at a very solid 9 and
HLAZ-1566 running a clos
That's just about it average. I made one run up the dial at 1220
and found a number of the Chinese already in, along with the JJ Big
Guns. Was hopeful for a great Chinese morning. I began in earnest at
1255, a half hour from LSR. Very average, with China being slightly
favored. The only i
I didn't make it up until 1258 and went directly to 1017 to see if I
could catch that CRI KK Service fanfare and ID at 1300. Wham! There
it was louder than I've ever heard it... clearly an armchair 9+! I
hit Record and, of course, the strength started to slide. Still, the
fanfare and ID were
Barry,
Think of your EWE as the upper half of a loop antenna... the other
half is reflected in the ground. If you raise your EWE from 10' to
12' that is really adding 4 feet to its total height. The gain of a
loop is directly proportional to its area. In the ham world, its
somewhat controve
Walter, I hope that you were listening this AM! I had 52 audios,
with 22 of them at 7 or above. DXing from 1245 until 1340 UT, there
really seemed to be no part of the band or geographic area that was
favored... or maybe they all were. Signals were still up/down a bit
more than I remember at m
Whew, you talk about jumping into an icy lake in
January Sumbuddy done stole alla my DX.
I was up early for the second AM in a row. With LSR just after 1330,
here is what I found at 1208 UTC (unnoted means a "threshold" 6 level):
*1208 UTC*
531
747
774 JJ @7
1377
Yesterday AM, I had ove
Like Walt up in the Queen Charlottes, yesterday morning showed a
recovery here, much more rapidly than I expected. Conditions were
transitional, with the bigger Japanese, Chinese and Korean guns
present during the first half of dawn enhancement, followed by a very
nice opening to DU land, with
I DXed from 1255 to 1350 with LSR about 1335
As reported by the majority of others, conditions were down here a
bit this morning, but with quite a few interesting ones... Many more
than usual low NHK1 outlets were present again and then several other
interesting Japanese: 891 NHK1 Sendai i
My reception this AM was a mere shadow of Walt's, of course, but
along the same lines: All Asia. The bottyom of the band NHK1s were in
again... this string has been better, more consistent for these NHK1s
in 500 and 600 kHz. bands that I've ever heard. Most of the other Big
Gun JJs were in, alo
Sorry,
I meant to have sent these out earlier. All receptions were on an
E100 modified with a 2.6 kHz Murata IF filter and connected directly
to a Wellbrook Phased Array pointed either NW to Asia or SW to Australia.
567 JOIK, NHK1 Sapporo Japan 8/22/2008 1226 NHK1 //594
648 V. of Russi
Steve,
The TAB network is playing pops with some of them oldies late in
their evenings. I'm pretty sure that you were listening to 4TAB.
John B.
At 06:47 AM 9/10/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Another decent morning for TPs with a mix of Asian and Down Under
today, and as usual lately, late in
The 2008 "Fall Follies" Ultralight MW DX Contest
October 24 to November 3, 2008
Back by popular demand! With a new contest added to the mix and the
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Gary,
I hope/think that 675 CC was the CC News Station from Hohhot in Inner
Mongolia/China. Sure hope that you can ID it!
John B.
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To:
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 7:30 AM
Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 9-11
Hello Guys,
We've been in Peru for four days, having a great time seeing pre-Inca
archeology on the North Coast and staying at Chiclayo. I've arranged
through friends of friends (with a cousin or two thrown in) to be met
by a car at our hotel at 2:30AM local time. We'll drive about 20
minutes straight we
I made it just fine, but could not/did not want to DX from
pier. Used hotrodded E100 most of the time. Much better radio than
the 1103. Was 1 klick south of Pimentel on beach, with wire at 330
deg. Skunked on TPs, except for a brief het at 1115 dawn on 774. No
choice on antenna direction. D
Was up at 4AM local time, 1100 UT, with the body still on Eastern
time from Peru. Checked early and the usual JJ suspects were
there. Korea and China came along later and my general impression
was that it was an "OK" morning, but nothing special. With Local dawn
at 1403, I DXed seriously from
Still adjusting to Pacific Time here, so my first pass was 2 hours
before dawn at 1208. I heard the now-usual NHK1 on 567 at an 8 and
expected the same thing on 576 NO! It was Russian!!! Was R.
Mayak probably from Petropavlosk (its a synchro channel for
Mayak). That was a very rare and u
On returning home after three weeks, I'd hoped for a whole fist full
of QSLs but only had one envelope from Dudley Scantlebury,
Technical Administrator of RBG, Rhema Broadcasting Group in
Auckland. It was a treasure trove. Mr. Scantlebury inclosed 3 QSL
cards Rhema 1251 in Auckland, an
As Walt observed, it was an up and down morning, but VERY
interesting. I checked 576 first at 1254 (fade out was 1430) and
Mayak was walking tall with a solid 9. As soon as I turned on the
recorder, it stated to drop, of course, but I held on for the Bells
of Moscow and pips at 1300. Over the
I DXed from 1300 until 1430 fade this morning and found, essentially,
a repeat of yesterday, only even more interesting. Like yesterday,
China and the Koreas (plus Russia 576) came in quite well from early
until right around dawn, with the Japanese there, but most were not
doing too well. The
Well, Poo!!!
I had a niggling feeling that I should look at PAL a bit more
thoroughly on that 720 JJ signal. I'll really have to watch for that
one in the future. Would be a nice QSL.
Thanks, Bruce!
John B.
I hate to be a party pooper, but the Voice of Russia has Japanese on
720 1200
Well, things mighta been "Ho-Hum" in Victoria, but just 20 miles NE
(with a clear look up the Gulf of Georgia) things were HOPPING. In
fact, it was the first morning that there was more DX than I could
handle, live and I caught myself considering joining the Dark
Side with a Perseus recorde
Friends,
The 2008 Fall Follies Ultralight Contestant Package has just been
posted to the official Ultralight Files Area on dxer.ca. There have
been a few changes in this Fall's contest, so reading the Rules
carefully would be a good idea. There are still three contests in
each of two Receiv
Yesterday's trip to the PO Box was a joy. a beautiful large-size
picture post card from Leilani Dahilig. Mrs. Dahilig is the station
manager at KTWG and it was her that I heard reading the daily Bible
verse on KTWG. She said that she'd gotten reports from Finland, Japan
and other places fa
A couple of people have noted difficulty finding the Contestant's
Package on DXer.ca. Thanks to website owner, Colin Newell, here is a
direct link:
http://tinyurl.com/ulr-dx-party
Or, you can search for the title, by sorting the files: The 2008
Fall-Follies Ultralight Contestant`s Package
Walter,
Our local downturn (even worse here, with no DU action) is totally
your fault you went and labeled yesterday's cx as "Ho Hum." I've
found that every time that I admit publicly that I find the
conditions boring, the next morning is MUCH WORSE! I think that this
effect is closely r
I got the sense that Vroomski checked the band early, reported poor
cx and went back to bed this morning. Excellent choice, Dennis!!!
I had maybe 20 audios, with all but the biggest JJ guns at the 6--
murmur level and all but four below 1100. (1242, 1512, 1566, 1575.)
Really poor
I'm g
Congratulations, Joe!!!
Hey, find a bit of time to go through the log and make up a
submission for various awards you have earned a slug of them with
those 400+ stations!
John B.
At 08:52 AM 10/4/2008 -0400, you wrote:
Good morning,
Finding some time to check out the airwaves durin
I've began to notice that recoveries here, in the fall, are almost
always "led" by the Japanese stations coming back first to be
joined a day or so later by the Chinese and Koreans. That is what
was going on for me this morning was a good to excellent Japanese
morning, with just a few
Dennis,
Really glad to hear that your new Steve Ratzlaff-modified E100 has
paid off on its first morning. Having that external antenna port and
using the E100 with the EWE from the shack sure beats running outside
to hold the radio against the antenna, eh???
I think that you'll really like
The way to cause new record reception is for the record-keeper to
(finally) update the records. I did that two days ago and was holding
them until I heard from one record holder about a typing error that I
think that I made.
Sure enough, last evening, Allen Willie heard KNX on 1070 with his
t
I was stunned to read Walter's "Dullsville" report for this
morning It was one of my best mornings ever from here. I had
audio on every single (non-zero-ending) channel from 531 through 1062
except for 549 and 1035! I'll admit that about half of those were
at the mumble-level of 6, but
Bruce,
Thanks very much for your timely Grayland report its practically
a primer for folks wanting to hear TPs from the NW. Its particularly
timely for me, of course, since I head for Grayland in the morning.
I'm going to be using your notes along with my own from
Orcas... 1386, probab
Bruce,
They (CKMO) were truly running OC during at least parts of this
morning at dawn I'm 20 miles from the station, as you know, and
it was just a clean vertical spike on my scope.
John B.
At 05:19 PM 10/5/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Bruce Portzer wrote:
CKMO-900 seemed to be having
There was a lull in new Firsts and Records for the first half of the
summer. Since then, there have been many new country Firsts
established... Gary DeBock and I adding quite a few Pacific and Asian
countries and Allen Willie continuing his march through Asia and Africa.
Until Allen's super
Thanks to a long rainy drive and some in-route errands, I didn't make
it to the Grayland Motel until after 4:00PM. Thankfully, the
impending REAL storm held off long enough for me to get the NW
Wellbrook up while it was still light and in only a windblown drizzle.
My goals on this trip were t
As far as I'm concerned, this is strictly up to the individual
DXer. For instance, I decided years ago that I wasn't going to
distinguish between my own personal records for Grayland and Orcas
Island, as far as TPs were concerned and I haven't and don't plan
to, EXCEPT where contests requi
No wonder that I heard 20-something new Ultralights was very
lucky to be at the right place and time, with all of my notes and Hit
List in hand. I didn't realize just how much fun I had until I read
how well my fellow TP-Chasers did this morning! Bravo for everyone!
I guess it is too muc
This morning seemed almost as good as yesterday morning, with audio
on most every channel for the last two hours before dawn. Some of the
channels were at murmur-level, or one notch up at language
recognition level, only. However, even a number of these latter
yielded to slight up-ticks which a
Well, sure enough, the propagation changed, and it DID move more
solidly to China and away from Japan. Frequencies like 837 and 1386
that had offered Japanese stations for the past two mornings were
solidly held by Chinese this morning. Unfortunately, overall signals
were down some, too, so th
Yesterday, I was still having trouble believing that I'd heard KFQD
in Anchorage on the barefooted T615, right over the top of 50 kW
KXL-750 in nearby Portland, OR. Whilke I was at the local Library and
firmly hooked to the internet, I checked to see if the University of
South Carolina even HAD
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 guy
New Ultralight BAREFOOT Class Loggings
Grayland, WA DXpedition 2008.10 (Oct 7-10)
John Bryant
Sony SRF-T615 Barefoot
567 JOIK NHK1 Sapporo 1409 10/10/2008
594 JOAK NHK1 Tokyo at 1124 10/08/2008
648 VoR, Ussuriysk, Russia in RR 1411 10/10/2008
657 Pyongyang Bangsong, Kangnam, North Korea 1351 10
New Ultralight Unlimited Class Loggings
Grayland, WA DXpedition 2008.10 (Oct 7-10)
John Bryant
Modified E100 + NW Wellbrook Phased Array
531 JOQG-NHK1 Morioka 10/7/2008 1140 (late, something behind that
was NOT DU. India???)
540 CNR1 Synchros 1407 10/7/2008 (only there late and poorly)
549 J
I enjoy setting interim goals for myself in DXing... beyond Country
and Station totals. One of these, for me, is trying to hear and then
QSL as many NHK1 and NHK2 "pairs" from Japan as I can. Almost every
mega-city in Japan has both an NHK 2 and NHK 2 station, and some of
the pairs are among
I checked about 2 hours before dawn and found the NHK2 Big Guns in
audio... 747/774/828 and even 873. Yesterday, any JJ audio was
coming from the direction of Australia (west). Today, it was about
equal on the two antennas (W & NW). Near dawn, there were also a
handful of DU audios, all below
Poo on alla my sack-rat buddies who checked it out early and gave up!
It kept getting better as we approached dawn, as it should and I
ended up with 23 TPs in audio, ten more than yesterday
Still, its all in how you look at it... glass 20% full or 80%
empty. Where yesterday all of the Ea
We've had a chance to clean up some gaps/goofs, etc. in the overall
World Record. Through some faulty communication with Dennis Vroom , I
never got the specifics of his record breaking barefoot reception of
VOA Thailand from Grayland back in April. I'd also not yet received
the details of Kevi
Sorry that Gary did not do better this AM. Things were clearly back
to normal here. I checked first at 1227, 2 hours before dawn here and
things were doing very nicely. At dawn enhancement, the lower half
of the dial was FULL of audio the only channels without at least
a 6 level were 549,
It will be interesting to learn what Walt Salmaniw heard in the
Charlottes. I did not start until 1355, 35 minutes before LSR. The
entire morning would fall in the "low average" category as far as I'm
concerned. There were fewer audios on the low band and darn near none
above 1100 (1206, 1242
As you know the 2008 Fall Follies DX Contest is rapidly approaching
and Guy and I intend to help hold up the NW's reputation for long
distance reception. We have reserved Yurt #114 at Grayland Beach
State Park for Friday and Saturday nights, Oct 31 & Nov. 1. That is
the last weekend of the
It was a low to average morning here, with more signs of it becoming
late Fall season (JJs were excellent two hours before dawn, lots of
channels with two stations at dawn.) As usual, 75% of the action was
below 1100.
The most interesting
531 had two East Asian signals, Morioka, Japan pl
We got back from our jaunt around the interior Pacific Northwest a
day or two early A great trip at the absolute peak of fall
foliage, but glad to be home Having been reading the mail as we
traveled, I feared that the conditions would be awful this morning. SHO' NUF!!!
The JJs continue
Just a reminder that the 2008 Ultralight Fall Follies DX Contests
start this Friday at 30 minutes prior to Local Sunset this coming
Friday and run until 30 minutes past Local Sunrise on the Monday 10
days later (October 24 thru Nov. 3). There are three separate
contests that DXers in the US an
I had 35 audios this morning, but at least half were only
threshold. The lower band was in much better than the high band (5
only above 1044). China was dominant both early (1300 and at dawn
1430) Even the better audios were very up/down, with China and Japan
fighting it out on 747, 774, 828
Gee, I'm sorry that so many others found conditions still pretty
poor I dunno where I'm getting the DX, but it is darn sure back
here on Orcas.
Yesterday, I had 30 audios on the bottom half, today it had just
increased to 33, but the levels were much better. Well more than half
of them we
Yes, Patrick, you are correct
I'm under 20 all-saltwater miles from Vancouver, which I overlook
from my house and about the same distance from Victoria, through the
islands. I think that Colin momentarily forgot where I live. I
believe that the local QRM here is considerably worse than C
Dennis!
Great work at Grayland Beach Those yurts are
nice, aren't they? I'd spotted number 80 as
another DXable yurt 114, 115, 116 and even
117 are also excellent possibilities.
I doubt that Mike has closed for good, since he
was really pleased when I was down there a couple
of w
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