Re: [IRCA] Who Stole Alla the DX??

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friday night from Barrington IL and Saturday night from Grafton WI were 
stunning and on a par with what I could receive from inland New England 
QTH's as a kid/young adult. Grafton is somewhat better than Barrington, due 
to being Lake front and having no line noise, but I also have considerably 
stronger eastern QRM across Lake Michigan in Grafton to contend with.

All that is needed for an effective phased BOG System for TA's here in the 
upper midwest is a football field size of flat land with cut grass. I'd 
rather have twice that much, but I don't in TA directions.

Aim the BOG's far northerly..ie 30 to 40 degrees, so they do a good job 
nulling eastern pests, but still have the TA DX coming in on the right side 
of the main beam (noting most Euro TA DX is North East of here).

Make one BOG about 130 feet longer than the other and when you phase out 
back end(S to SE) midband (actually over much of the band) pests you won't 
null the desired TA DX and often it will be stronger(a couple dB more on the 
S-meter) on the phased combo than on either BOG alone.

Low A and K indices are essential for TA's here in the midwest and no matter 
what antenna system you use, you will often here little trace of hets or 
carriers.

Good selectivity is essential and sidebands can be useful, especially for 
digging up audio 1 Khz (or 2Khz) away from QRM.

I'll take a quick listen in a few minutes as it is nearly dark, but with the 
slight AU activity I am not expecting much.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <J999w@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Who Stole Alla the DX??


> In a message dated 9/18/06 12:27:11 PM Central Daylight Time,
> mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << John,
>
> You guys hear the TA's, that we wish we could hear. I would trade the
> JJs for a bunch of Spanards, or Poland, or ???? One mans pest is another
> mans DX I guess. hi.
>
> 73s,
>
> Patrick
>  >>
>
> Here in Wisconsin???
>
> Not us, with the exception of KAZ of course, multi acre land barron that 
> he
> is.  :^]
>
> I've heard carriers here, but yet to hear _any_ audio out of Europe.
>
> John K9RZZ
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