[IRCA] DXpedition to Quoddy House - Lubec, Maine - Nov. 12-18, 2017

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

>From November 12 - 18 I was on a DXpedition in Lubec, Maine sharing time between
Quoddy House [QH] and Lubec Bay Cottage [LBC].

I had 2 DKAZ antennas at QH - one pointing 45 deg. and the other at 100 deg.  At
LBC I had one DKAZ at 90 deg.  All antennas were 160' DKAZ with Vactrol
termination resistance [Rt].

I'll be going through Perseus wav files for awhile but have a webpage up and a
decent start:

http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_qh10.php

Highlights so far are South Africa on 846 kHz, ID'd by Ralph Brandi and a
parallel webstream, and CRI on 1521 kHz from Xinjiang provice, China.

Another highlight was getting a KiwiSDR receiver going at QH.  To make sure it
was working without totally overloading a slow internet connection a few lucky
souls tested it while I was still at QH and dug out some amazing DX - like South
Africa [thanks again Ralph Brandi!].  The KiwiSDR will be up, all going well,
over the winter from QH on a 1000ft. BOG at ~75 deg.

During the few days I had the DKAZ connected to the KiwiSDR and since on the BOG
Andy Robins took the set up for a spin DXing NDBs - non-directional beacons - on
LW.  His excellent write-up of the experience is here:

http://realmonitor.com/qh10/Quoddy%20House%20NDB%20Logs%202017.pdf

You can give the KiwiSDR at QH a try here:

http://qhkiwisdr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

Be gentle and patient.  It's on a slow RF-link wifi connection assisted by a
beta proxy server hosted by the KiwiSDR folks.

The 1000ft. BOG is not as good as the 160' DKAZ at 45 deg. but there is no way a
DKAZ - as I errect them for DXpedition use - would survive a cold, wet, windy
winter on the Maine coast.  Based on my experience at QH in 10 trips over the
past several years, any antenna not already on the ground would eventually end
up there anyway.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
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