Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-09 Thread d1028gary
Bill Whitacre To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Cc: d1028gary Sent: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 3:12 pm Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: I suspect that the Florence location suff

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-08 Thread Russ Edmunds
nd lose it a short way inland. Russ Edmunds 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia Grid FN20id FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'; Grundig G8 AM:  Modified Sony ICF 2010's barefoot --- On Tue, 8/7/12, Bill Whitacre wrote: > From: Bill Whitacre > Subject: Re: [IRCA]

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-07 Thread d1028gary
ssage- From: Nick Hall-Patch To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America Sent: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 9:46 pm Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR There are a couple of papers, one by Knight and Thoday "Influence of the groun

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-07 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
There are a couple of papers, one by Knight and Thoday "Influence of the ground near transmitting and receiving aerials on the strength of medium-frequency sky waves", Proceedings of IEE, Vol. 16, #6, June 1969, and "LF and MF Propagation: An Approximate Formula for Estimating Sea Gain" by Knig

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-07 Thread Bill Whitacre
On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: > I suspect that the Florence location suffered somewhat from being 1000 feet > inland, Gary and Bill. My limited experience has been that you're generally > better off being right at the coast for the best DX, although Gary's > experience > se

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-07 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I suspect that the Florence location suffered somewhat from being 1000 feet inland, Gary and Bill. My limited experience has been that you're generally better off being right at the coast for the best DX, although Gary's experience seems to point to an advantage to being right at the coast and hig

Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

2012-08-07 Thread d1028gary
Hi Bill, Thanks very much for your detailed investigation of relative DU signal strengths at the 800 ft. high ocean coast elevation near Florence and at the much lower elevation near the Grayland Motel. I'm sure that your detailed work will be very helpful in clarifying the principles affecting oc