[IRCA] Re: TA's on the West Coast

["Bill Harms" <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike:

	I know that DXers have in the past year or two reported reception of Norway 
on 1314 in SoCal.  (I don't know the specifics).  I think that Croatia on 1134 would 
have a decent chance as would Maurantania 783.

	On the opposite end, I have had signal traces on 1566 a couple of times this 
season around 1000-1200 (assumed HLAZ, Jeju, South Korea).  Maybe I ought to 
pay more attention.

Bill Harms
Elkridge, Maryland

On 27 Feb 2005 at 19:38, Mike Hardester wrote:

>     Being one of the junior ancients in the hobby, I will babble about
> the past. While living in Modesto, CA (Central Valley), between
> 1968-1972, a group of DXers in the San Jose, CA, area were
> occasionally hearing TAs. I received a call from one of the San Jose
> DXers advising me that the BBC was being heard at a fair level
> (frequency was either 1205 or 1215 - I can't recall which). I checked
> and noted a carrier and that was all. Padre Jack Pejza later published
> an article (DX Monitor, I think) explaining why the Central Valley was
> not a good place to hear TAs - something about mountains blocking
> signals or some such. As usual, the Padre was correct. 
> 

>     Point being, as the sunspot cycle is declining, it might behoove,
> beclaw, bepaw or some such for anyone with copies of DXM and/or DXN,
> during the above years, to do some checking. No guarantees, but if one
> can pinpoint which year was best for West Coast TAs back then,
> correlating that period of the sunspot cycle with today's, it might be
> a predictor of which upcoming years will bear watching. Just a
> thought. 
> 

>     Well, have to close. The wife says my prune juice latte is ready.
> 
> Mike
> Jacksonville, NC


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