Re: [IRCA] #2000 logged from Michigan

[Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Congrats Tim! Glad to see you've hit 2000! Glad to read of your great
successes using the antenna systems I suggest. I don't keep and exact count
here and also don't count call changes but a several years ago and pre
Perseus use an informal count had me slightly above 2000. I had the
benefits of two decades here and some great TA cx aided by Phased BOGs and
some channels with a couple of TA's logged on them. Perseus has been a
great help and I have been amazed at what I'd left on the table for logs
and the ID's one can pull out under the dominant under the dominant. I
think if I had to guess I've got about 2500 logged here in Barrington IL
over 22 years. You hitting 2000 since 2009 is remarkable.

As for DE  two here in IL. 900 pre-sunset about 2:50 pm in Dec years ago
with Phased BOGs before other stuff faded in. 1290 dug out with a portable
when reported on day power for a 76ers game again years ago.

In WI I managed to log your 47 states in fewer that 20 sessions at the
superb QTH. Lake MI to my east makes the eastern stuff lots easier than
here in IL (except for DE). Putting some distance from Chicago makes the
more difficult (for Chicagoans) states like ID and NV reasonably easier
with Phased BOGs during good sunset skip times. But no DE even with many
tries since then and sometimes Phased BOGs aimed right at them. Checking
patterns for DE they have no stations that put much power this way. But
eventually you'll get them if you aim at them. I'd use Phased BOGs to
concentrate the beam and to minimize back end QRM.

As for AK, someday when cx are much better northerly (give it a couple more
years in the sunspot cycle) you'll have a chance with that D-KAZ north. If
sunrise, expect at least some carriers from Japan/Korea. The morning I had
Japan here I was stoked for AK and CK-750 didn't have any audio much of the
time or was off. But the program I copied I pinned down as Utah with WSB
phased out even though using Phased BOGs aimed 320 deg.

I still look for HI in DU cx. Many channels have Mexican QRM in the same
cx. 1500 seems a good shot but it seems low powered domestics are in there
near SR even if I can get rid of KSTP and aim the D-KAZ array beam WSW.
I've listened to many of Mark D's recordings from central MN at SR and I've
been able to confirm the SF Bay area Viet stn for him on 1500 but no trace
of HI. So this doesn't seem easy.

73 KAZ







On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Nigel Pimblett <nige2730@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Congratulations on the accomplishment Tim.     I hit the #2000 mark last
> year, but it took me a lot longer.     The Perseus has certainly helped me
> push up the total too.
> I hate to be negative, but I don't like your chances on AK at the moment.
> Even here in Alberta I have yet to hear Alaska this season -  a far cry
> from the 2008-2010 period, where I was even beginning to consider some AKs
> as regulars.   Hoping those days will return in a couple of years as we
> head for solar minimum. And if you're missing DE, I really don't like my
> chances out here!
>
> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, AB
> Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array
>
>
>
> On 12/28/2016 8:32 AM, Tim Tromp wrote:
>
>> I had hopes of hitting #2000 before the year ended, and that goal was
>> accomplished yesterday afternoon when a faint 1490 KLGR was heard.  I
>> don't
>> count call changes and all logs between 530-1710 kHz have been from my
>> same
>> suburban west Michigan location.
>>
>> I started my logbook in 2009 with a "barefoot" DX-440 that was good for a
>> few hundred stations, but I wanted more!  Enter the Quantum Loop, which
>> worked wonderfully with the DX-440, and netted me a few hundred more
>> stations including my first Trans-Atlantic station (1134 Croatia) and
>> several more TAs to follow, most of which are now history.  Still wanting
>> more, but reaching the limit of the Q Loop, I knew it was time to go
>> bigger.  I bought a 500 FT spool of wire and laid it on the ground in a
>> straight line, connected it to the DX-440, and started logging a whole new
>> mix of more distant stations.  I learned more about BOGs and discovered
>> how
>> Neil Kazaross was phasing two of them and soon went back to DX Tools and
>> purchased a Quantum Phaser to try it for myself.
>>
>> It didn't take long to hit #1000 with this setup.  At this point I'm
>> pushing the DX-440 to its limit, so I decided to try SDR and eventually
>> opted for the Perseus which I still use today.  A reversible D-KAZ loop
>> was
>> also added to the mix a few years ago.
>>
>> Some obligatory stats since starting this adventure in 2009: 47 states
>> heard with AK, HI & DE still needed (keep dreaming).  Most distant catch:
>> 702 2BL Sydney @ 9,345 miles/15,039 km.  Nearest unheard: WBCH @ just 59
>> miles!  169 graveyarders and 37 countries heard on MW.  Recordings of some
>> of my more interesting catches are posted to YouTube here:
>> https://www.youtube.com/user/kilokat7
>>
>> Happy New Year & Good DX,
>> Tim Tromp
>> West Michigan
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