Re: [IRCA] [coastalroundtable] Recent DXpedition to Grayland, WA & Florence, OR

[Guy Atkins <dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your experiences and DX from both locations provide a lot of "food for
thought", Bill. I've listened to all of your clips over the last couple of
days.

I like your summary comment "...I won't be forsaking the Grayland Motel any
time soon!". I'm in agreement with that, after hearing all your files and
drawing my own conclusions. However, I'll add the nearby Grayland Beach
State Park into the mix of not-to-be-foresaken DXpedition locales... it's
my "thrifty DXer's" destination of choice.

I'll be back at the south end of the park in a few days, likely using a
DKAZ for the first time instead of a phased array unless the brush and
obstacles aren't as bad as I remember. I hope I get a haul of DX even half
as good as you managed on the 2nd; those Hawaiian clips and some of the
Kiwi recordings are really impressive!

GREAT JOB on providing comparison DX from both QTHs, Bill. Although we have
the variable of the distance between the two locations to consider, your
efforts provide the most interesting DX test yet of sea level vs. elevated
DXing.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> From July 31 - August 2 I visited Grayland, WA and Florence,
> OR. At each location I set up a Perseus and a an 'extended
> DKAZ' antenna pointing at 235 deg -- towards Hawaii and the
> south Pacific [Aus/NZ]. The best day, of course, was the
> last day and I have put sound samples from 1300 utc up
> through 1280 kHz from both Grayland and Florence on a
> webpage for comparison:
>
> <http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland6.php>
>
> I'll be adding more as time permits.
>
> The Grayland location was the famous Grayland Motel and
> Cottages and the location near Florence was a place called
> Sans Suci at about 800ft. elevation and back about 1000ft.
> from the Pacific. There are Google Map links to both sites
> on the webpage above.
>
> Also on the webpage are links to stats [stations logged,
> countries logged, stations/country, etc.], a Google Map view
> of the loggings and something I call AzBar which is a bar
> graph of the number of loggings at given azimuth ranges -- a
> good way to visualize how an antenna works.
>
> There is also a link to a pdf drawing of the extended DKAZ
> antenna, designed by Neil Kazaross. It is the best
> single-element, non-phased antenna I have ever used. It's
> pretty easy to errect and without phasing doesn't give me
> the opportunity to screw things up! What it does require
> though is some tweaking of the termination resistance - Rt.
>
> I know there's been a lot of interest recently in cliffside
> DXing. Perhaps some of the data in this report will let you
> compare simultaneous loggings from two locations at very
> different elevations. Unfortunately, the locations were also
> about 6 hours drive from one another so I make no claims on
> the issue based on these loggings but I won't be foresaking
> the Grayland Motel anytime soon!
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