That's interesting Bruce. I'm a BC DXer and just got back from a week at Quoddy House -- last private residence before the West Quoddy Head lighthouse.
Lots of room for antennas and at the moment I'm working with Neil Kazaross on testing some of his EZNEC designs: <http://realmonitor.com/QH3/DKAZ_2_sizes.pdf> While at Quoddy House I had, at one time or another, 3 DKAZ antennas up -- one pointing 330 deg, one at 155 and 'the workhorse' at 60 deg. Lots of TAs, some LatAms of interest and even a few TPs -- Japan-774, Korea-972 and China-1593. Interesting thing is that all the TPs came in much better on the 60 deg antenna than the 330 degree one! This morning, after I got back home to Alexandria, VA I got the first-of-the-season 'trace' [waterfall mode on a Perseus receiver in 'reverse x-ray' mode] of a TP carrier on 972 ... and that too was using the TA beam of a 4-element Wellbrook phased delta array rather than the 'usual' place I find TPs -- facing North. Interesting propagation. BTW, on the way to Quoddy House - down South Lubec Road off of Hwy 189 - there is a pretty impressive antenna farm -- a few 100' towers and lots of HF yagis. Anybody know who this might be? Be nice to talk to another radio person on those lonely, short winter afternoons 'down east.' --- On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Bruce wrote: > > Could hear a SM station calling CQ. A good signal, but he was coming in from > the NW to mid coast Maine. Very unusual.... Thanks for the sola wind update. > 73 > Bruce > > >> On 12/9/2012 6:14 AM, Arthur Delibert wrote: >>> Interesting to see this report. A few years ago, OH2BO wrote on this >>> reflector that for DX signals traveling through the polar regions, he >>> watches the solar wind, and expects very good conditions when the solar >>> wind speed is below 300 km/sec and the solar wind pressure is less than 0.5 >>> nPa -- which is exactly what happened in the latter part of last week. >>> Solar wind data is available here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/ >>> Regards,Art DelibertKB3FJO > From: t...@kkn.net >> This is really interesting, as last evening was the first time this year >> that I have heard Europe on 160 at my SS. G6PZ was really loud. >> >> 73, >> Mike, W5UC _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com