Re: [IRCA] Europe and....Alaska

["Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com" <oregon4wd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just pick the Alaskan freq. with the least local/regional interference and 
Hang in there, maybe for a long time. Do our home work, read the paper, scan 
the internet... anything... sit on the channel.   It may take days, weeks, 
months, but when it happens, you'll hear it more often.  I never heard 
KICY-Nome till last year and I heard it again a few days ago. Nome-.... cant 
beat Nome, hi. Good luck, 73- Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Hall-Patch" <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Europe and....Alaska


> At 04:31 11/10/2006, you wrote:
>>I'm envious of all you guys up north (at least when I'm inside the
>>house) for the DX you can pick and choose from.  If I get the
>>central part of the US or Canada, I'm tickled.  If I get the east, I
>>wake up the housemate.  TPs are not that common, and TAs are a
>>pipedream, and you can fill that pipe with whatever you want.  I
>>tune to 850 a few times a night, just because I'm so tickled to be
>>hearing KICY...same goes for KENI/650 even though its there almost
>>every night until Nov/Dec.
>
> Well, Mike.....can I drag out KICY? not yet; I keep trying.    Mind
> you, a tentative KFQD is squashing KXL right now, with all sorts of
> Alaska ads, and I haven't heard that for years.  That northerly Flag
> antenna helps.
>
> But tonight's opening to Europe was pretty amazing.  Seemed to
> limited to a few square miles in Victoria, BC, though, judging by the
> posts, hi.
>
> best wishes,
>
>
> Nick

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