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- Subject: Re: [NRC-AM] DXpedition near Lubec, Maine
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:11:03 -0500
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Hi Bill. It will be interesting to see what you do get as compared to recent PEI, MA, and NJ DXpeditions. Your TA fade-in times are about a half hour ahead of here on the Cape, no surprise since you have better antennas there, likely less line noise + domestic slop, and are roughly 150 miles farther east.
Albania TWR 1394.91a, UK 693 / 882 / 909 / 1089 / 1215, France TWR 1467, Moldova TWR 999, and Saudi Arabia 1521 were among the first good signals fading in at the Orleans, MA site last week. Algeria (including 1550 duking it out with WNTN), Spain, Morocco, Canaries, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Italy, Romania, and others quickly followed. 4 p.m. / 2100 UTC was pretty much prime time with most of the players on the field by then. Domestic slop became more an issue an hour later.
On the Orleans outing the heavy static crashes were an impediment to getting much out of many lower power British locals that otherwise would have been in the clear. Manx Radio 1368 had a good signal (judging by carrier height on the spectrum plot) but was being double-whammied by sloppy adjacent WDEA as well as monster T-storm static ... a major headache producer with the headphones on. I think that the lower power Brits will have a much better go of it this week.
How did you get the 23 ft. masts up there Bill? I'd imagine this was a driving rather than flying trip. Which Vactrol scheme are you using, something you built yourself or the set-up for Colin Newell (derived from some variation of my design or Lankford's)?
I have had zero luck here with TP's so far on pre-dawn scheduled recordings even though Chris Black managed a couple of Japanese less than two miles from here a few years back, Bruce Conti's has had several TP's/DU's in NH about 100 miles Japan-ward from here, and I had the 1053 Korean jammer at dawn in East Harwich, MA (8 miles east of here) about 15 years ago. 1566, which should be a "primo" channel, gets mercilessly blasted by slop from 1560 WFME and 1570 CJLV / WMVX.
My pre-dawn recordings don't even have much from Mexico or western US / Canada. Generally I'm looking at just the same bunch of pesty Cubans that rule the roost around midnight local.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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From: Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tue, Nov 15, 2016 11:19 am
Subject: [NRC-AM] DXpedition near Lubec, Maine
Sitting in the library for wifi here in Lubec, Maine waiting for the highest tide ever thanks to the âsuper moon.â Iâm at two sites with one 160â DKAZ at 57 deg. and another a short distance away at 100 deg. Both are âtraditionalâ 23â mast versions with Vactrol Rt.
No internet at either location so paralleling with on-line streaming is out. Will make a positive ID on things like South Africa on 828 a bit of a challenge. Thatâll have to wait âtil I get a chance to listen to wav files and pull some song titles hoping that they may actually be logged by the station â bit of a long-shot I fear.
What Iâve noted so far is that despite the unsettled conditions things are coming in pretty well â and fading in pretty early compared with âback homeâ in DC. âEarlyâ means hearing audio from 1900utc onwards from the likes of the UK on 1215 and 909 as well as Albania on 1395 [or thereabouts] and a few Spanish outlets. By 1930 some more interesting stuff starts to come in and by 2000utc weâre in full-on DXp mode.
Past couple of morning Iâve watched TP carriers on 774, 972, 1593 fading up after 1000utc and lasting as late as 1100utc in the case of 1593.
More as I get a chance to go thru wav files.
Bill Whitacre
Lubec, Maine
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