[IRCA] Cook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight TP's for 4-13

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dreams of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar evaporated on the ocean beach this morning as a determined collection of ANZ pests conspired to lock up all the "exotic" frequencies on the last day of the DXpedition. 567, 576, 594, 729, 873, 882, 1071 and 1566 all had at least one potent DU English pest, but usually two of them. To be honest I was pretty lucky to dodge these ANZ pests to receive 918-Cambodia and 693-Bangladesh during the DXpedition, although 1431-Mongolia was a piece of cake. 1566-Norfolk Island was possibly logged in a DU English mix two days ago, but I'll need to review the recording to see if the mega-pest 3NE's co-channel wasn't 4GM.

Here in Aitutaki it was a crash course to adjust to wild, ocean boosting propagation in the Southern Hemisphere, which brought in long-range DX at  science fiction levels. Mongolia, Bangladesh and Cambodia were all strong enough to receive on the hot-rodded CC Skywave SSB Ultralight alone, while the 5" FSL was used primarily to boost signals that were already around S7 or S8. Any DXer taking one of these hot-rodded Ultralights to an ocean-beach DU island like this is going to make out like an absolute bandit!


73 and Good DX,

Gary DeBock (in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, almost out of Kiwi dollars) 
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