Besides what Gary has observed, I have to think that Point-no-Point is just
not that great of a DX site for TP DX. I listened on both Saturday and
Sunday mornings from Rockwork south of Cannon Beach, OR using the FSL
broadband version. Saturday morning was very good, IMHO with plenty of
signals especially in the bottom half of the band. Sunday was not as good,
but still not bad. Unfortunately, I can't rate the mornings vs my
standards of BOGs or corner-fed loops, which I'd love to do. In any case,
I'd rate Saturday as a 7 or 8, and Sunday, a 5. I had thought that you
were off to Tofino, the real west coast of Vancouver Island. You still
have to contend with the Olympic peninsula to a large extent, and the full
length of V.I. to the NW. The only clear open ocean is to the W/NW, a 15
deg slice. Just my $0.02 worth! ......Walt
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:53 PM, cafe-swl <cafe-swl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Spent Friday night through Monday morning at the Point No
> Point cabins near Jordan River, B.C facing out over the pacific --
> http://www.pointnopointresort.**com/ <http://www.pointnopointresort.com/>
>
> Was testing out Gary Debock's innovative surplus ferrite rod
> antenna design -- its performance comparable to a 4' open frame
> loop. As it turns out, for me, this could have well been the
> single worse series of days for radio listening.