Re: [HCDX]: Scandinavian MW DX feeding-frenzy

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

TA reception remained good here in the northwest corner of the US.  
Norway-1314 was similar to the previous night, plus I had brief rock 
music on 1215 (Virgin Radio I would guess), and hets on 1179 (Sweden?), 
1062 (Denmark?), and 981 (no idea what that might be).  I haven't checked 
for trans-Pacific DX.  I have a bad case of local electrical noise which 
I can null out by pointing the loop at Europe...unfortunately it's pretty 
strong when I point the loop at Asia, but hey, I'd rather hear TAs 
anyway.
		Bruce Portzer, Seattle, WA

Mark Connelly wrote:
> 
> from Mark Connelly (WA1ION) Billerica, MA, USA
> 
> Neil Kazaross mentioned "absolutely the best ever" European DX
> from his home near Chicago, IL a couple of nights ago.  He listed
> stations that he hadn't even heard in Newfoundland a month earlier !
> His latest report spurred me to do some listening during the 0500 to
> 0800 UTC time period (midnight to 3 a.m. local).  Generally I've
> neglected this time block because (a) I usually like to sleep then.
> and (b) with cold weather, meddling non-DXers (police, etc.) operation
> from the car at high-quality shore locations doesn't usually work out
> too well.  Neil's report of good high-latitude propagation and some
> really good sunset-period reception here of stations such as Sweden-1179
> gave me the idea to do some tuning from the home QTH in Billerica, MA
> (25 km from the seashore) between 0500 and 0800 UTC on 27 DEC '97.
> 
> It paid off !  I had my best-ever reception of Finland-963 and, at 0715
> UTC, a nice sign-on from Faroes-531, a station I'd heard only once before
> from a US site (Harwich, MA ... a much better location than home for
> Euro's).  Finland had a great signal for over an hour (before 0630 to
> after 0730).  Kaliningrad-1386 blasted in with a great "This is the Voice
> of Russia World Service" ID at 0600.  Of course the usual Scandinavian
> big-guns (Norway-1314, Denmark-1062, Sweden-1179) were booming in at
> near-local quality.  Even at 0800, when I did decide to "pack it in"
> for a night's sleep, Norway and Denmark were still putting in good
> signals.
> 
> Southern Europeans (e.g. Spain) were heard, but the more-northerly
> stations had the edge this time around.  I'd suspect that, if conditions
> stay this good, there will be more US and Canadian receptions of Baltic
> countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.), Russians, and other less-
> frequently-logged northern and eastern European stations.
> 
> 73 to all and good DX in 1998 ... Mark Connelly
> 
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