Re: [IRCA] FWD: The Whole Caribbean Report (from Pete Taylor)

2018-01-23 Thread Gary DeBock
Thanks Nigel, Pete's Caribbean report was one of the most detailed and dedicated by any traveling DXer recently, and certainly deserved to be posted in full. I recently completed a similar "travel DXing" trip to Kona, Hawaii, and know how much effort and dedication it takes to track down and co

Re: [IRCA] FWD: The Whole Caribbean Report (from Pete Taylor)

2018-01-22 Thread Nigel Pimblett
  Thanks for posting your Caribbean results Pete (and to Gary!).    We spent a week in the Bahamas in December, and I took a Perseus along to make some recordings I could check later.   We were in a pretty noisy environment just outside Nassau, so I didn't expect any real DX, but was still inte

[IRCA] FWD: The Whole Caribbean Report (from Pete Taylor)

2018-01-22 Thread Gary DeBock
My wife Kristine and I took off again on a trip that included Reno (11/5-12), Orlando (11/12-30) and then on a Caribbean cruise (11/30-12/10). The ship’s navigational program did not provide coordinates and I could only get them on my cell phone when we were in ports. We were accompanied by an I