[IRCA] 585 kHz DU Classic Rock Mystery Station...2WEB

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,

One of the mystery DU stations that has seemed to show up for me during 
almost every summer Ultralight DXpedition is a classic rock station on 
585 kHz, occasionally with fairly strong signals. This station had 
evaded identification for an extended time, cleverly limiting its 
DU-English speech to extremely brief (and incoherent) mumblings in 
between lengthy songs. Propagation clues indicated that the origin was 
Australia, since it never showed up during Kiwi-slanted propagation.

Last week at the "Rockwork" ocean cliff viewpoint on the Oregon Pacific 
coast the station seems to have finally have given itself anyway, 
however. Superior salt water propagation and the high ocean cliff 
elevation seem to have finally solved the mystery. After listening to 
the recording of the 585 kHz  mystery station playing "A Horse With No 
Name " on the MP3 at http://www.mediafire.com/?vdytg556d027a7w , Chuck 
Hutton was kind enough to say that he was 75% sure that there was a 
"2WEB" ID at 1:11 into the recording. After listening to the recording 
with high-sensitivity headphones about 25 times, I am 100% sure that he 
is correct. The male-voiced DU English announcer seems to have slowed 
down, and purposely given a 2-W-E-B identification a few seconds after 
the song ended at 1:11 into the recording. So now the station playing 
"The Horse With No Name" is no longer "The Station With No Name." 2WEB 
is a 5 kw station in Bourke, Australia. This was the second UnID South 
Pacific mystery solved during the "Rockwork" visit, the first having 
been the identification of 765-Radio Kahungunu, a 2.5 kw Maori-language 
station in New Zealand, with the help of Tony King and Gary Deacon. 
Both of these stations were long-term mysteries that might have 
continued indefinitely, if not for the DXing combination of high 
elevation and salt water propagation. Thanks to Chuck for his 
assistance. The "Rockwork" ocean cliff really rocks!

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)  

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