[IRCA] Waters Edge DXpedition - Oct. 18 - 21

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

I visited the Waters Edge HomeAway rental property near Fleeton, VA for the 6th time from Oct. 18 - 21.  Results are on this webpage:

http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we6.php

A 160â DKAZ was used pointing at 135 deg. -- further south than I had planned thus I missed most of the fine TA loggings my friends at LBI enjoyed the same weekend.

I also was reminded that the DKAZ is a wonderful âdeer trap.â  On two consecutive mornings I woke to find one of my masts BROKE due to a deer incursion.

Conditions were far from auroral so I was mostly limited to the usual collection of stations from PR, DR, Cuba and Colombia.

A couple of decent catches did struggle through the mundane to reach my antenna though.

On 1290.3 kHz I had a re-log of Radio Timbira do Maranhao from Brazil:

http://realmonitor.com/we6/181019/0100/brazil-1290.wav

And on 828 kHz Magic 828 provided a weak but readable signal ...

http://realmonitor.com/we6/181019/0000/south-africa-828.wav

â that I was not able to // with their on-line feed due to a really crappy internet connection but recognized the voice of a rather distinctive male announcer from a previous logging in Lubec, Maine last November ...

http://realmonitor.com/qh10/171113/qh100/2330/south-africa-828.wav

Fortunately, the weather was nice and my wife and I had a nice break from DC.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
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