Re: [HCDX]: RSL DX'ing outside the city

[Per-Ole Stenman <per-ole.stenman@xxxxxxxx>]

Nice story, this is just DX-ing as it best! At least here in Scandinavia no
one actually should complaint of bad antenna conditions and interference,
at least not during the summer time. You can always take your car, erect a
1000 meter beverage antenna to the area you want to hear and listen to
Africa on medium wave, the Caribbean, Brasil etc. Of couse in the beginning
of october it already starts to get cold, but some of the first nice
conditions towards USA and North America is on hand then also.
Per-Ole Stenman, Jakobstad, Finland

At 23:06 13.8.1999 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Mad of being tortured by local interference when trying to receive those
>offshore RSL stations, I took a drive with a fellow DX'er outside the city
>of Antwerp.  I was driving only 15 km to the north to a village called Lillo
>on the border of the river Scheldt.  We were armed with a Sony ICF 2001D, a
>Sony ICF SW55, two small loop antennas of 35x35 cm and some
>cassetterecorders.
>
>At home I can receive RNI during daytime on 1575 at about O=3 but R.Caroline
>on 1503 is in fact not really heard, not to speak about Swinging Radio
>England 1566. During the drive, I tested regularly those frequencies on my
>car radio and it was noticeable that we were entering a less polluted area.
>When finally arrived, we were very surprised with the quality on 1575 and
>1503 kHz, still on the car radio.
>
>After unpacked our radios and antennas and installed them on a bench at the
>riverside we noticed that the results were astounding. RNI was coming in
>with full O=5.  Nine leds of ten burning.  Caroline was also very strong 0=4
>with seven leds burning.  Time of reception was between 13:00 and 15:00 UTC.
>It was however strange that we couldn't hear anything besides a weak carrier
>on 1566 kHz.
>
>Does anybody know if Swinging Radio England location is quite different from
>the other offshore RSL's ?
>
>What makes those receptions more remarkable is that they were made outside
>the city but still in a village surrounded by the refineryinstallations and
>factories of the port of Antwerp.
>
>BTW : a tourist passed by and took a few pictures from us, wondering what
>those mad Belgians were doing...
>
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