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
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From: Neil Kazaross <neilkaz58@xxxxxxxxx>
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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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