Re: [IRCA] ? 4 Gary & Rob, the 2 ULR NDB rivals

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Stephen,

As you may know, Canada has many powerhouse NDB's with excellent antennas and transmitting sites, while the USA generally has second-rate installations. For this reason (especially), I have heard 7 NDB's from Ontario, while Rob has yet to hear one from Washington state. Rob has heard 2 NDB's from British Columbia, though, which is very impressive considering his Ultralight radio and 7" FSL antenna. And since Rob doesn't consider any of my 7 Ontario NDB's to be from the "civilized" part of the province, I guess that I'm still looking for my first "real Ontario" NDB.

73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Airy <pianoplayer88key@xxxxxxxxx>
To: irca <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Sep 16, 2012 2:30 am
Subject: [IRCA] ? 4 Gary & Rob, the 2 ULR NDB rivals



Hi guys,

Was just wondering...  what's the closest NDB (to the other's home location) 
that either one of you has logged, from your own home location, that the other 
has NOT yet logged?  If you want you could expand to mediumwave stations - 
non-directional non-GYers preferred but not required. :)  Bonus points for Rob 
having logged a station in WA that Gary hasn't heard, or for Gary having bagged 
one from ON that has evaded Rob. ;)

Hey Rob.  What's this I hear about a "snowmobile suit being ready"?  Is it 
really that much colder there than here? ;)  A couple days ago at my house it 
was 100°F (or, in your parliance, about 38°C) outside... in the shade - around 3 
or 4 pm.  Having humidity in the teens (or lower - I suspect the device was 
bottomed out) definitely makes it more bearable, I think.  (It was still 86°F in 
the house around 6pm IIRC.)  Guess it's too hot for me to get any NDBs right 
now, especially considering the only LW "antenna" I have is a 
north/south-running barbed-wire fence across the street? ;)  (It has been 
"cooling off" to the mid-60s at night, though.)

I did some TP DX attempts yesterday morning, using my PL-398mp as a 
"spotter/leader", guiding the busted-display (no frequency readout) PL-606 to 
promising targets.  I'll need to go through the video when I get a chance before 
I post it, though, to weed out the extra stuff.
I did get fairly decent audio on 1575 through a combination of splash from 1580 
KBLA Santa Monica, CA, 1580 KMIK Tempe, AZ & ~1570 KMIK-HD Tempe, AZ.  I did use 
the Select-A-Tenna, although I was still able to hear them when I removed the 
SAT from the PL-606.
I also was able to get 1566, which I presume was HLAZ.  The SAT was required, 
though - there was no barefoot reception.  I don't remember if I had any others, 
but I doubt it.  774-JOUB was missing, as was 972-HLCA, 657-Pyongyang and 
594-JOAK, all of which have been heard here previously.  (JOAK is tough due to a 
local 5kW IBOC spewer on 600 less than 8 miles away.)  I also tried for 
747-JOIB, 828-JOBB(?) and 693-JOAB(?), but was rewarded only with splatter and 
IBOC hash.
I hope to have a chance to post the video of my 1575 (and maybe 1566) reception 
later today or tomorrow, to prove that I did receive them (and hopefully someone 
can then confirm my suspicion that 1566 is HLAZ (confirmed previously) and 1575 
is VOA-Thailand (heard previously but not confirmed)). :)


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