Re: [IRCA] Finally got KFIR, Oregon

[Mike Sanburn <mikesanburn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations Neil on the KFIR logging. Way to hunt them down. ---Mike Sanburn  KG6LJU

> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:57:49 -0700
> From: neil.neilbell@xxxxxxxxx
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IRCA] Finally got KFIR, Oregon
> 
> As most MW DXers know there aren't a lot of stations on 720 kHz. One I have
> wanted for a while is KFIR in Sweet Home, Oregon, about 450 miles from 
> my QTH.
> At night KDWN in Las Vegas, NV dominates the frequency with their 50 KW 
> power,
> day and night. I decided to try for KFIR in the time after sunrise in 
> Las Vegas
> and just after KFIR switched from their puny night power of 184 watts to 
> their
> day power of 10 KW.
> 
> Finally this morning about 0530 local time here in the SF bay area KFIR must
> have shifted to their 10 KW day power and I got reasonably good KFIR 
> reception for
> about 15 minutes before propagation faded out. Daytime reception of KFIR 
> isn't
> normally possible at this 450 mile distance.
> 
> Finally logged it using my Excalibur SDR and Quantum Phaser with two random
> wires. Thank goodness for the grey-line effect!
> 
> Neil Bell, KJ6FBA
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