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

[Mike Irizarry <michael.irizarry29@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill, just gave it a try. Works great. Listen to some LW. Nice job!

Mike
AB4KJ

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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