Re: [IRCA] TP August 29 and 30 2012 / Jordan River Point no Point vs Victoria proper

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Colin, I happened to be up from 12:30 UTC and listened for an hour.
Things in Victoria were quite lively using my Perseus SDR and West
directed corner fed loop.  Very useful was Nick Hall-Patch's DX
Fishbarrel which showed that conditions were very similar to my own.
DU propagation was superior here, with 891 especially providing very
good reception, especially around 13:15 UTC.  1116 was rather
disappointing with threshold audio only.  Earlier, Asiatic propagation
was also decent with good to very good signals from Japan on 1287, and
HLAZ 1566 being only slightly weaker.  No idea why things were so poor
for you.  Perhaps Point No Point isn't such a great place to DX?  Your
ALA 100 should have done a lot better.  Mine was only slightly less
effective than the corner fed loop.....Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:27 PM,  <cafe-swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wednesday morning 1300 to 1315 UTC
> And Thursday morning 1300 to 1310 UTC
>
> Set-up at Jordan River - Point no Point cabins with
> a Gary DeBock modified Tecsun PL-380 radio and a ICOM 703+ and Wellbrook
> ALA100M
>
> (Wednesday) 738 khz - loudest signal on the band -
> could have been English, might have been French - no
> idea. Not enough to read anything.
>
> Noted absence of 747, 774, 828 Japanese and any of
> the Korean powerhouses... 972 to 1566 khz etc.
>
> Lots and lots of hets on most of the upper band (1200 and up)
> but no audio...
>
> Thursday morning - lots and lots of hets across the band -
> only hint of audio was on 1566 and that might have been even
> imagined.
>
> On the ham side of the house, was running the "legal" limit on
> the ICOM 703+ (10 watts) and snagged 1 QSO with Russia, 2 from
> Alaska (all SSB) and managed to check in on the "BC Net" on 80 meters
> which was astounding considering I was using Workman mobile whips
> with a simple wire radial system - and battery power.
>
> Good DX to all.
> Colin Newell - www.dxer.ca
> Victoria B.C. Canada
>
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