Re: [IRCA] DXpedition to Gearheart, OR - Day 1

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Kevin,
 
Your Gearheart DU-DXing report is a fine job under difficult conditions,  
and you certainly did the best you could under the circumstances. It's always 
 a challenge to set up a DX listening station on an unknown ocean beach in  
the darkness, especially when the weather is not cooperating.
 
I'm sorry that my own recent Oregon DXpedition report wasn't ready prior to 
 your trip, but you seem to have had no problem finding lots of DXing  
targets anyway. After having apparently stumbled upon a hot spot for South  
Pacific DX in Lincoln City, I received about 10 new DU stations  that neither 
John B. or I had ever heard a trace of on Ultralight gear at  Grayland, 
despite John's use of Wellbrook antenna arrays during multiple trips.  Some of 
these new DU stations had very potent signals in Lincoln City, and  with the 
assistance of Chuck, Bruce, Guy and Patrick (all having far more  DU-DXing 
experience than me), I've been trying to sort them out prior to the  DXpedition 
report.
 
Kevin, Highway 101 near Cannon Beach has a couple of small state parks on  
top of high cliffs overlooking the ocean, with sweeping views of the Pacific 
 from the high elevation. If you have any chance to set up your Ultralight  
listening station in one of those spots, you may enjoy a very potent South  
Pacific signal boost. But you've done quite well already while DXing in  
Gearheart, and I'm happy that you and Patrick could get together for  supper. 
Enjoy the DX tomorrow, and thanks again for your DU-DXing  report!
 
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)

 
 
In a message dated 7/29/2010 7:50:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Hi  all:

I’m on business for a couple nights on the Oregon coast near  Seaside.  I
had a great dinner with Patrick Martin last night, the  local DX master,
and really enjoyed gabbing on and on about DX with  him!

My hotel room is unfortunately an RF zoo, so I ended up finding a  nice
quiet picnic table at the shore, a couple miles north in Gearheart,  OR,
arriving at about an hour prior to the 1250 UTC (0550 local)  sunrise.  I
used an active/passive Crate Loop, coupled to a Tecsun  PL-380 via a little
ferrite coupler, and a Sony 7600GR barefoot  spotter.

Things were ominously dead for the first 30 minutes, then  picked up a bit,
although conditions were nowhere near as good as they were  for Gary DeBock
last week, who was a few miles south at Cannon Beach.   Oh well – as least
it was lightly misting/raining the entire time  :-)

I managed to pick up a few tidbits from the ionosphere, all DU,  with
reception continuing until 1320, about 30 minutes after local  sunrise:

567 Nearly intelligible EE male and female announcers at 1245,  presumed NZL
594 Male announcer at 1247, to weak to tell language
612  Good EE announcer at 1257, mention of “Australia”, so 4QR-Brisbane.  
Another “Australia” at 1313.
648 Presumed EE by cadence at 1311
657  Chariots of Fire music at 1216, presumed Wellington, NZL
675 Good EE voice  at 1233, presumed 2C0 (AUS) or 3YA (NZL), still sorta
there at 1309
702  Came on late at 1304 with EE male, presumed 2BL-Sydney, possible ID at
1305  (need to check recording)
738 Weak French (Tahiti) at 1219, burbles at  1236, excellent FF at 1247
with 2NR Grafton AUS occasionally on top; the  two were still battling it
out at 1257, but almost gone at 1307
765  Brief music at 1222, unknown
774 Weak EE female voice at 1318, presumed  3LO, couldn’t make out words
though
792 EE newscast with “ABC Radio” ID  at 1319, so 4RN-Brisbane confirmed
891 EE news at 1237 presumed 5AN  Adelaide, barely there at 1252, better EE
male at 1259, mention of  “Australia” at 1322 apparently confirming 5AN
972 Sounds like EE at 1237,  no clue who though
1071    Good late het at 1322, not enough to  hear anything though
1098    Brief EE? News at 1240,  unknown
1116    Good EE signal at times, but buried under  1120-KPNW

So, not quite what I had hoped for, but given the infrequency  of my
getting out to the beach, I’ll take anything I can get!  One  more shot
tomorrow morning, perhaps trying Cannon Beach instead, then back  home.

Kevin S
Bainbridge Island,  WA

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