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Re: [IRCA] [ultralightdx] Introduction and some logs
Hello Vince,
Greetings from Puyallup, Washington (home for Guy Atkins and me, and a
modest TP-DXing location about 5 miles from salt-water Puget Sound). We take
great pleasure in welcoming you, John, Gary and any other South African
DXers to our worldwide Ultralight radio enthusiast group, and are especially
thrilled at your superb TA loggings from Canada and the USA on your Murata-filter
modified Eton E100 (no doubt the first of many, which will probably eclipse
the DXing records that our Grayland, WA group has assembled).
In November of 2007, I was astonished to receive three TP's on a $17
Sony SRF-59 Walkman that I had purchased for my 8-year old son, in a dubious
attempt to interest him in MW DXing. The attempt was a total bust, but the $17
was anything but wasted, as that humble SRF-59 became the inspiration to
kick off the worldwide boom in medium-wave Ultralight radio DXing. When
co-conspirators like John Bryant and Rob Ross joined the cause, the wildly booming
niche hobby suddenly became well organized, and quickly grew into the 150+
members of the Yahoo ultralightdx group (with the outstanding DXer.Ca web site
as a home base).
We hope that you and the other SA DXers will avail yourself of the
extensive resources published in the Ultralight Radio File area of DXer.Ca, and
also take advantage of the superb Ultralight Awards Program, administered by
John and Rob. We are very honored to have you all in our booming group, and
will be eager to hear more of your amazing DX loggings!
73 and Best Wishes,
Gary DeBock
In a message dated 1/13/2009 11:43:43 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
vince999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Greetings everybody
Vince Stevens here from Cape Town, South Africa. I've just joined this
group thanks to some gentle prodding from John Plimmer..
But the real credit for getting me up and running with an Ultralight
Radio has to be collectively given to John Bryant, Guy Atkins & Gary
DeBock who generously combined forces and provided the 4 of us South
Africans with some of the little radios to play with. None of these
radios are available in SA as far as I know and the costs of importing
them would have been too high, so we'd all been stalling on purchasing
them the normal way, bearing in mind that we all have decent table top
comms rxers anyway.. But thanks to the above gentlemen I now have an
Eton E100 and a little Sony SRF49, which ultimately will probably do the
rounds and be shared amongst all of us here in the Cape..
Best I introduce myself at this point. I'm 42 years old and have been
DXing for 28 years. I started off on a domestic valve set then moved to
an FRG-7 (when the DX bug really bit), then an Icom R-70 in 1984 (which
I still own), then a Drake R8A in 2003.. I also own a Collins R-389 (the
antithesis of an Ultralight!!antithesis of an Ultralight!!<WBR>, with tw
valves if I remember correctly - a wonderful beast) and an AR88D. I now
live on a farm 30KM east of Cape Town and have enough space to run some
shortish beverages. Presently I have one of 130m running North-South. I
also use a ALA1530 and a 50m longwire running NW-SE. I focus almost
exclusively on MW and do try for QSL's when something good comes in. The
best DX is not heard at home however, so trips to the coast are quite
regular..which leads me nicely into some loggings, heard at Noordhoek a
few mornings ago:
Ultralight loggings: Noordhoek Village, 20 KM south of Cape Town on the
Atlantic coast, about a kilometre form the beach. Listening from my Land
Rover 4x4. Gary Deacon also in attendance with his ultralight..
Rxer - Eton E100 (hotrodded)
Antenna - 200m Beverage on Ground
Times - UTC
Date - 12 Jan 09
810 USA WGY (presumed) 04h12, interview with Ellie Burstyn, good briefly
(personal first)
880 USA WCBS 03h06, CBS nx, poor
900 CANADA CHML 03h04, sports nx, ID later, fair-good
930 USA WBEN Buffalo 04h05, nx, wx & ID, poor-fair (5KW - personal first)
1300 USA WJFK 03h13, ID & website info, poor
1660 USA WWRU (presumed) 03h24 in Korean, poor
Many other UNID's also heard including some potential 5 kilowatters plus
some non-regulars
720 WGN (normally hear Brazil here)?, 870 WWL?, 680 one of
WPTF/WRKO/CJOB ?, 1370/1420/1680 - all USA no idea which stations tho'..
12 Jan was a very good morning for USA reception, probably one of the
best I have experienced. Noordhoek in mid-summer has been good to us in
the past, its just a darn struggle to get up at 4AM in order to beat the
sunrise which happens at around 0530 ;-)...and I did switch over to the
Drake at one point because the DX was flying in and I can't yet record
from the Eton...
so that's hopefully the first of many reports from me...
<<nice to be here..!!>>
cheers
Vince (mailto:ultralightdx-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=)
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