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

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Point no Point has served me well on many occasion -
I think it may have had more to do with a lack of
commitment - and not deploying the ALA100M properly.

Heading back up there for 3 days in a month or so
and heading to the Big Island of Hawaii for 24 days
in January.

I have been fine tuning things at home and monitoring
the noise levels in my building -- have found a few window
area sweet spots where the "buzz" is around S1 to S2 which
should easily allow the TA and TP cavalcade to make its way
through over the next month or so.

Also going to try re-building my ALA100 loops using significantly
heavier insulated wire and shorter lengths - currently my ALA100
and ALA100M loop lengths are around 15M long - which is about twice
what they should be.

> 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


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