Dear friends,
I am quite surprised you utilize Hard-core dx to attack the hobby activity in Italy, I found this message sent By Osterholm very much offensive and based on STUPID observations, I hope no more messages like this will be permitted by moderator Risto Kotalampi, on the contrary I will surely leave Hard-Core dx family.
Best regards,
Dario Monferini
PLAYDX ITALY.
DARIO MONFERINI
Via Davanzati 8, IT-20158 Milano, ITALY
http://listen.to/playdx
>From: Jan-Erik.Osterholm@xxxxxxxxxx
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>Subject: [HCDX] XEBAL 1470
>Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:09:20 +0300
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>I am extremely surprised of the claimed logging of XEBAL 1470 by some
>Italian DX-ers. First, the mentioned dates were extremely poor towards
>the Western Hemisphere all over Scandinavia that should be in a much more
>favourable situation to receive signals over the Atlantic compared to Italy.
>During the dates mentioned the activity of listeneras at least in Finland
>was intense. Nobody noted anything more than poor conditions originating
>also from
>the fact of very unfavorable geomagnetic activities.
>
>1470? CPN has been a powerhouse in the Southern Parts of Finland during the
>last month. At this time of the year - early April - it is more or less
>impossible
>to hear Mexicans on AM in Scandinavia, and should be even more impossible in
>Italy. During the claimed dates CPN was very poor in Scandinavia.
>
>On the above mentioned dates April 1-3 when XEBAL was claimed to be heard
>between 0210-0310 UTC the grayline in northern Italy occurs between
>0357-0501 the latter being the sunrise time in Milano. Very typically - and
>almost exclusively - rare trans-atlantic catches during springtime is
>received exactly during the grayline period. The claimed loggin was thus
>received during a very unfavourable time which make it even more suspicious.
>
>XEBAL is transmitting with an omnidirectional pattern and with 500 watts
>during the time claimed. Taking into account the 1470 stations like CPN, R
>Huancayo, Vibración, Latina, the Colombians, etc would make a reception of
>XEBAL extremely unlikely especially taking into account that R Formula
>México DF with 50 kW is the Mexican power house here.
>
>After almost 40 years of experience in LA-DX and having heard more than 80
>mexicans in Lemmenjoki, Finland I would argue that this claimed Italian
>logging either is a severe mis-interpretation, a bad April joke or a result
>of a total lack of DX-experince. Come on boys!
>
>
>Jan-Erik Österholm
>Östravagen 18
>FIN-06100 Borga
>Finland
>
>e-mail: jan-erik.osterholm@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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