Re: [IRCA] TA on the west coast

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

In late 1955 I was stationed at Keflavik AFB in Iceland.  I listened to AM from October into early January 1956.  West Coast NA was heard often in October.  I don't recall hearing Europe during
the daytime (9:30am-2:30pm LT) but they were easy in the evening.  North America would start arriving around 10:30-11pm LT....During the last half of December the band was covered by South
Americans almost every night..  About a week/10 days into January we fell into the doughnut hole (auroral wise) and reception took a dive & I switched over to the ham bands, which were
fascinating as well.

Don K.



Bob Foxworth wrote:

> >The late Roy H. Millar in Western Washington ... first Issaquah, then
> Everett ... had some success with TAs. >Back when I did a 5-minute MWDX
> weekly tape for Radio New York World Wide, one of the highlights was a
> >piece of audio Roy taped from Estonia (IIRC) on 1034.
> >
> >John Callarman, Krum TX
>
> I am quite sure that it was, in fact Tallinn 1034 to which
> you refer.
>
> Another of Roy's loggings that I recall reading in DX News
> was Beirut on (then) 836. I am fairly certain that GPN
> believed these loggings to be auroral doughnut-hole.
> I think Roy had loggings of Egypt as well. These were
> unusual logs, even for him, and were not by any means
> common.
>
> I have all the IDXD pages from 1958 through the mid
> sixties, so with some research could probably find
> more detail on what he heard.
>
> What is telling is the difference between what was
> heard in 1964 by GPN and others in the northeast,
> vs. what was heard in just the adjacent years. The
> sunspot count can vary from less than 10, to maybe
> 25, from one year to the next, and this seems to be
> important for favorable long range skip possibilities.
> GPN would have said "necessary, but not sufficient".
>
> The reports from the west coast of TP's already being
> heard in July would indicate that this may happen again
> this year. Sept. and Oct. should be carefully watched
> as this will be peak opportunity.
>
> Ric Heald DXed from Venetie, AK (near the arctic circle)
> with a Lafayette table top all-band rx and said that
> during the winter (very low southern sun) that during
> the daytime, such as it was, he could hear Europe and
> North Africa/middle east without much difficulty, when
> auroral cx were quiet. He was a semi-regular listener
> to Luxembourg 1439  "208 your station of the stars"
> (as was I in 1965 but I was in Germany then....). His
> choices were basically DX, or a weak KFAR. (Ric
> also DXed from Sitka as well where he heard many
> Aust/NZ stations).
>
> This is supposed to be _the_ year for good LF long-range
> reception, as was 1964, 1986 etc. With the combination of
> several unfavorable long term trends, i.e. big MW stations
> going silent in favor of FM, risk of night time IBOC,
> increased noise floor from solid state electronics, this
> may be the last time in our lifetimes to try and duplicate
> some of these exceptional MW loggings.
>
> Gentlemen and Ladies, start your receivers !!
>
> - Bob
>
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