Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 7-21; Victoria continues somnolence

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

This morning I slept in (up at 3AM yesterday was a little hard on the 
old brain) and left the SDR to do the DXing...unfortunately, it too 
got disgusted with the quality of the DX, and packed it in just 
before 1200UT in spite of instructions to go on for another 40 
minutes.    At any rate, the recording said that there were only 
carriers heard in Victoria until 1200UT, and not very good ones at that.

best wishes,

Nick


At 20:04 21-07-12, you wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thanks again to Dennis, Nick and Steve for their relative TP and DU 
> signal reports (although they may all feel like throwing me off of 
> the Oregon Cliff by now).
>
> This morning the Cape Perpetua Oregon Cliif DXpedition wrapped up, 
> and I was very pleased to welcome fellow Ultralight radio DXer Norm 
> Clark (of Monmouth, OR) to join in the wild fun. Norm has a 7.5" MW 
> loopstick PL-380 (of the new design, just concocted last week) and a 
> 5" Medium Wave FSL (the model previously published with 
> "Heathkit-like" building instructions).
>
> Norm arrived at the cliff around 1210 UTC, and was promptly greeted 
> by an unexpected Far East visitor, 774-JOUB, which pegged his 
> PL-380's S/N display at 25. He then managed to receive 738-Tahiti 
> without blowing out his Tecsun Ultralight's front end, although the 
> French-language station's strength made the outcome questionable for 
> an extended period. What really made Norm absolutely astonished was 
> a booming signal from the New Zealand 5 kW Christian music 
> broadcaster 684-NZ Rhema on his hot-rodded PL-380 and FSL, which 
> convinced him that the normal rules of MW propagation do not apply 
> on this Cliff!
>
> It was another Kiwi-slanted morning at this 400' high ocean view 
> site, with New Zealand running roughshod over all other South 
> Pacifics. Once again 567-RN, 603-Waatea, 657-Southern Star, 675-RN 
> and 684-NZ Rhema were pegging the PL-380 (+ 8" DXpedition FSL) S/N 
> display at 25, and 1008-Newstalk ZB joined this select group for a 
> short period around 1300. The Aussie X-banders were down for the 
> count, making the 1701 kHz reception (and ID) yesterday the 
> DXpedition's sole success in this aspect. 1584 kHz had weak music 
> audio around 1250, but since even the Aussie Big Guns were anemic, 
> this flea-powered station had a hopeless task in making itself heard 
> with any strength. But the New Zealand stations really were on the 
> Warpath this morning, and I'm glad that Norm was able to join in the 
> Kiwi-slanted fun.
>
> Last evening Ruth, Danny and I had the great pleasure of being 
> invited to the best restaurant in Yachats, Oregon (at the Adobe Inn 
> Motel) by Norm and his beautiful wife Dawn. Norm and I both shared 
> some interesting stories about action in Vietnam, military life and 
> other matters. Dawn listened patiently to our rambling about DXing 
> and other matters, while I expressed my sincere apology for turning 
> her husband into another Ocean Cliff DU-DXing fanatic.
>
> Sorry for all the delayed resonses to emails during this 
> DXpedition-- we are at the mercy of public library computers, which 
> seem to be trained to cut off your access immediately before you 
> have completed typing a lengthy upload.
>
> 73 and Good DX,
> Gary DeBock (now at the Alsea, OR public library computer, which is 
> about to cut me off)
>
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