My personal experiance has been that the graveyard channels seem to be
best in the summer months than durig winter. The majority of all my
garveyard logs, going back to 1958, the best logs, have been during
June. [These are logs heard while living in Texas, during the 40's to
the early 60's.
Winter seems to be best for TA's.
Willis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald K. Kaskey"
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To: "neilkaz" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Mailing list for the
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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] [ABDX] Sunset DX during June
Very interesting Kaz! I'll have to go back over my California logs
to see if I know what I'm talking about. My memory tells me that
everytime I tried at sunset in June & July and sky wave signals
didn't even start coming in until almost 2030 which was the time No.
Calif. dropped power. I remember trying for stuff to the north with
little luck. Thanks for checking in.
Don
neilkaz wrote:
>From San Diego in the 80's I found June was a decent time for SSS
DX to >the Pacific NW since stations up there were on day rig well
past So Cal >sunset times.
-----Original Message-----
From: "Donald K. Kaskey" <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Apr 13, 2010 9:14 PM
To: "ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, IRCA E-Mail List
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Subject: [ABDX] Sunset DX during June
In my experience dxing from Northern California 1957-2010 I have
found summer sunset dx, especially in June to be almost useless. I
think I only have a handful of decent summertime sunset catches to
show. I remember barely pulling in Eugene on 1050 from Sacramento
once or twice but not much else. I was browsing through my
vacation catches 1979-1984 from NW Iowa, where a lot of my
listening was at sunset. Amazingly I
was able to log these stations between 2000-2400 in June 1984.
Sunset time at Galva was 2100......
6-18-84 2009 1440 WROK IL Rockford
6-18-84 2024 1560 KQYX MO Joplin
6-18-84 2028 1600 KNCY NE Nebraska City
6-18-84 2031 1580 KCHA IA Charles City
6-18-84 2053 1580 KZIA NM Albuquerque
6-18-84 2134 1250 KCFI IA Cedar Falls
6-18-84 2329 950 XEYJ MEX Nuevo Rosita
6-18-84 2333 980 XENR MEX Nuevo Rosita
6-18-84 2346 750 HTA NIC Managua
6-19-84 2045 1510 KCCV MO Independence
6-19-84 2225 690 CBF PQ Montreal
6-19-84 2316 1070 WTSO WI Madison
6-19-84 2329 960 XEK MEX Nuevo Laredo
6-20-84 2000 1440 WGEM IL Quincy
6-20-84 2001 1440 KQRS MN Golden Valley
6-20-84 2041 1220 WVLE MN Stillwater
6-20-84 2106 1350 KDIO MN Ortonville
6-20-84 2132 1390 KKCM MN Waite Park
6-20-84 2301 1380 KOTA SD Rapid City
6-20-84 2307 1380 KLIZ MN Brainerd
6-21-84 2012 1430 KRGI NE Grand Island
6-21-84 2105 1300 KSWN NE McCook
6-21-84 2119 1300 KOLY SD Mobridge
6-23-84 2000 1580 KMCD IA Fairfield
6-23-84 2002 1420 WIMS IN Michigan City
6-23-84 2008 1520 KOLM MN Rochester
6-23-84 2024 1250 KBRF MN Fergus Falls
6-23-84 2037 1280 WMRO IL Aurora
6-23-84 2041 1290 WMLR WI Lancaster
6-23-84 2100 1460 KDMA MN Montevideo
6-23-84 2100 1480 KLSC SD Watertown
6-23-84 2129 1220 KDDR ND Oakes
6-23-84 2305 1360 WGEE WI Green Bay
6-23-84 2347 980 KKSS MN Richfield
6-24-84 2043 1450 KATE MN Albert Lea
6-24-84 2104 1410 KOOQ NE North Platte
6-24-84 2355 1360 KKBJ MN Bemidji
6-25-84 2030 1580 KTGR MO Columbia
6-25-84 2045 1100 KKLL MO Webb City
6-25-84 2047 1060 WKKQ MN Hibbing
6-25-84 2100 850 WWJC MN Duluth
6-25-84 2130 1590 KRRK MN East Grand Forks
6-25-84 2252 1270 KLXX ND Mandan
6-25-84 2330 980 WCUB WI Three Rivers
6-26-84 2306 1390 KKOA ND Minot
6-27-84 2037 980 WPRE WI Prarie Du Chien
6-27-84 2045 1290 WCOW WI Sparta
6-27-84 2101 1310 KOKX IA Keokuk
6-27-84 2147 1410 KCLO KS Leavenworth
6-27-84 2257 1550 KQWB ND West Fargo
6-28-84 2006 1480 WISM WI Madison
6-28-84 2018 1490 KBAB IA Indianola
6-28-84 2055 1310 KNOX ND Grand Forks
6-28-84 2111 1460 KRNY NE Kearney
6-28-84 2124 1090 KKBB CO Aurora
6-28-84 2127 1580 KPIK CO Colorado Springs
In recap I rather feel the midwest is a heck of a lot better sunset
time area to be dxing from than the far west coast. Maybe the next
time around!?!
Don Kaskey
San Francisco CA
4/13/10
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