Re: [IRCA] Heading for Grayland-- as Conditions Tank

[Walter Salmaniw <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:56 AM 8/29/2009, you wrote:
>Hello All,
> 
>As reported by almost everyone, TP signals have been in a nosedive the last 
> couple of days, with Asiatic stations in particular hitting the skids. 
>Despite  this, a one-night stay at Room 10 of the Grayland Motel was booked 
>about a  week ago, and it's time to face the music.
> 
>Once again traveling with Ruth and Danny (who were very reluctantly  
>persuaded to choose Grayland as their weekend getaway site), the space for  radios 
>and antennas will again be extremely limited. A collection of  Ultralights 
>(stock, modified and in between :>) will be taken along, together  with a 
>36" collapsible frame tuned passive loop, which despite its  modest size 
>seemed to work like gangbusters during enhanced Kiwi conditions on  August 9.
> 
>Recent DU loggings by Walt Salmaniw and others have been entered into the  
>modified ICF-2010's memories, and everything is ready to go-- except for the 
> propagation. You can't have everything, I guess.
> 
>73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)
> 
> 
> 


Like you've said before, Gary, a day at the oceanside beats any day inland, even when conditions are poor....I notice the same at my QCI cottage.  Even on the worst of days, I'm still hauling in DX!  ....Walt


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