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Re: [IRCA] phasing story

Who will log the Faroes first this season? And Iceland 666?


Chuck


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From: IRCA <irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:06 PM
To: IRCA Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
Subject: Re: [IRCA] phasing story

Tony,

Congratulations on catching KNR on 720, and welcome to the party!  Don't
forget to try 650 also, which has been better here on some nights versus
their 720 outlet.  And then there's the elusive 570 which hasn't happened
here yet.

73,
Tim Tromp (125 miles away from WGN)


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:46 PM TONY WARD <tonyward@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> May I please join the party! With a bow to Sylvain, who started me on the
> hunt — I spent weeks phasing WGN to oblivion trying for KNR Greenland on
> 720 after he logged it several years ago — and of course Tim and Kaz with
> their recent superb achievements, I lit up the under-utilised DXE NCC-1
> phaser. It has been side-lined here because recording on the Perseus
> encourages the broadband approach. Hooked my 400 ft Greenland nDB BOG (c.
> 40 degrees; love BOG’s, they cannot fall down when cometh the ice!) to
> antenna post A, and the trusty PA0RDT mini whip to B, and experimented with
> reducing WGN to dust on 720. With some success. At 0218Z, as others have
> noted, KNR stuck a few distinctive pop tunes into the man talking/woman
> talking routine that was rumbling along and it was obvious that success was
> at last at hand.
>
>  Now WGN is 400 miles from here, and pretty well 180 degrees from
> Greenland, but still, it felt pretty good….right up there with logging the
> 75m signal a few scant weeks before they pulled the plug, back in the day..
> There is about 2500 ft of creatively draped wire these days in my suburban
> ravine; in Whitby, 25 miles NW of Toronto downtown, and it feels really
> good I can tell you. I have bionic knees and don’t get around too well
> right now. I can see future antenna maintenance could be quite a problem.
> But I am seeing the Aussie and Pacific carriers at dawn (currently 1250Z or
> so here), and perhaps a few from Asia over the pole will make it this
> winter with the Solar low. Iceland booms in here on LW (both channels), as
> do many of the Europeans lately, when conditions are good. What was that
> wonderful station on 1134 that I heard earlier than 2pm local time a few
> years ago? And if all that fails, there are those amazing remote listening
> SDRs from which you can hear the World, as weak, or as strong, as you wish.
>
>  — Tony Ward (ZL1AZV, VE3NO etc)
>
>
> > On Oct 29, 2018, at 13:10, Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yep, the S meter is a must for getting the best nulls. You can do it
> > audibly, but the S meter sure helps.  73 KAZ
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 3:06 PM Jim B <jim01028@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> I put larger knobs on my quantum phaser for finer adjustment, but now
> >> that
> >>> I use SDR Console for MW dxing, I also use the gain db scale like a
> >> digital
> >>> readout to help find the best nulls.   Jim
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Nrc-am <
> >>> Nrc-am@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Sent: Sun, Oct 28, 2018 10:27 pm
> >>> Subject: [nrc-am] A phasing story. Greenland 720 logged in IL.
> >>>
> >>> A phasing story from last night. I live 12 miles NNW from WGN's xmtr. I
> >>> put down a 288 ft BOG at about 35 deg // a 177 ft one. Phase null of
> WGN
> >>> peaked at about 50 dB and it was down close to S6 on Perseus.? Sure
> >> enough
> >>> there's audio seeming // KNR webstream which was mostly talk. Then from
> >>> 0104-8 a couple of bouncy tunes sung by females clinched it leaving me
> no
> >>> doubt. This using the Quantum Phaser which I think I'd like 2:1 or even
> >> 3:1
> >>> Vernier knobs for.
> >>> When I got Greenland at my WI DX paradise a decade ago, WGN and KNR
> were
> >>> about S7-8 using longer terminated BOGs. At 12 miles distance I have no
> >>> skywave to worry about.
> >>> I couldn't get Greenland on 650 where even though WSCR and WSM are
> close
> >>> together on the dial and in similar directions, WSCR IBOC crept up
> during
> >>> best null on WSM and visa-versa.
> >>> IBOC sucks but phasing ROCKS. Short BOGs aren't impressive 'til you
> phase
> >>> them to create good back nulls. ? 73 KAZ?--
> >>>
> >>>
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