[IRCA] California Cliff-Top (Point Arena)

["ve7aul@xxxxxxxxx" <ve7aul@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday morning I took my modest monitoring station to the top of a cliff near Point Arena, California.

Starting at 1120 UT, I kept tuning my E1 up and down the band. As with Rockwork 4, I only found convincing signals on 738 kHz and 1503 kHz. The former was never more than a moderate carrier but the latter had solid audio until shortly before dawn. The signal on 1503 had completely different programming from what I heard at the other site. This time it was always in an unknown language except for the words "hello" (in response to a ringing telephone sound effect), "inflammation", and "omega threes". During the first hour I only heard a male voice but during the second hour (the period with the English words), it sounded like a series feature stories with alternating periods of a male and a female voice.

On my barefoot ultralight, 1503 had pretty good audio but it definitely was not as good as the E1 with the external ferrite loop.

My log may have little to show for my time sitting out in the cold but it was worth getting there when the surf and the adjacent cliff faces were still bathed in bright moonlight. Unlike the other locations, this one was very peaceful with zero traffic on the dead-end road to the lighthouse.

Brian
Normally in Victoria, BC
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