Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception

2013-05-09 Thread neilkaz
@hard-core-dx.com, DX @NRC a...@nrcdxas.org Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception It wasn't the transient kind of noise one expects from nature but rather a broad and steady high noise floor. There are a good number of gas processing plants and even some fracking going on up there but nothing

[IRCA] Poor BOG reception

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Durenberger Mobile
Upon arrival in the Pawnee National Grasslands (NE Colorado) Monday, we laid out 1100 feet of BOG; mostly East-West, on dry ground. The wire did its predicted job of squelching stuff from the sides (for example: flamethrower KOA was down in the mud to the point you could hear a co-channel

Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception

2013-05-08 Thread Craig Healy
Wonder if anyone else had unusual noise problems Monday night...or if it was caused by the many gas-well/fracking operations going on nearby. North Auroral Zone extends down to most of the northern US. That may have provided some noise. It's much further down than usual.

Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception

2013-05-08 Thread neilkaz
To: DX-IRCA irca@hard-core-dx.com, DX @NRC a...@nrcdxas.org Subject: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception Upon arrival in the Pawnee National Grasslands (NE Colorado) Monday, we laid out 1100 feet of BOG; mostly East-West, on dry ground. The wire did its predicted job of squelching stuff from the sides

Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Durenberger Mobile
Message- From: neilkaz Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:19 PM To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America ; DX-IRCA ; DX @NRC Subject: Re: [IRCA] Poor BOG reception What kind of noise was it? Perhaps your BOG was aimed into a big T storm cell a few hundred miles away, although I