Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] D-KAZ ADDS from 5AM-6AM scan 062314

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now these logs are more like what I'd expect to see with that antenna and QTH. Over the past few years, I've heard everything you list from here in IL except 580 and 590. KIDO and KQNT both have adequate patterns and power to make it here, but to my west 580 is mangled by WIBW and 590 destroyed by KXSP. I checked distances and your's are just under 1100 miles to those two stations and per my understanding of theory that can be a long single hop whereas when you add close to 300 miles more to make it here to me near Chicago a single low band hop is quite unlikely. But I am quite please to see that I have hope for KIDO and KQNT although neither was noted on a great early winter night about a decade ago when KVI was in under WNAX.

I'd have hoped to hear you say that you had a good enough back null on WMVP to NOT have to wait for it to fade out due to daylight to let in KOMO. Hmm...KAPE off the back end makes me a bit concerned about high end back null depth but around sunrise and when there's only a couple stns coming in, things can still be heard even if they are nulled 30 dB. 

Considering CKWX was in, did you have any CKST (sports) mixing with WHO as often happens here in season?

Did you check X-band? KNTS (Spanish religious oriented and Spanish Christian mx) should've been in on 1680 for example. Maybe there was Disney on 1640 once Milwaukee dropped out?

Your antenna is oriented NNW and that should give you a good chance at Alaska this fall assuming cx cooperate. But if I could pick a direction for this antenna from central MN is would be about WNW for western DX and I'd expect enough back nulls to still knock down stns along bearings from Chicago to Toronto/Montreal. 

Calls on 1450 are KZZJ. 1590 KGFK is licensed to East G.F, MN now.

73 KAZ Barrington IL..and sick of T-storms for a week and a half

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Durenberger Mobile <Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 24, 2014 3:13 PM
>To: "@NRC DX" <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>, DX-IRCA <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, MNDXC <MDXC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Shafer <mikegjco@xxxxxxxxx>, Fred-ARRL Baumgartner <K0FMB@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [NRC-AM] D-KAZ ADDS from 5AM-6AM scan 062314
>
>This is the stuff you chase down early morning, when it's still dark to your 
>West and you can use that to advantage.  The best example may be 1000, where 
>we simply waited for WMVP Chicago to fade away in the daylight, and that let 
>in KOMO.
>
>Astute citizens will note that some of these catches are serious surprises, 
>in light of signals much closer to us here in North-Central Minnesota.  But 
>there we are, thanks to the D-Kaz and in no small part to the great 
>resolution available in the Perseus SDR.  (I missed a few of these on the 
>first pass and found them only after going back and scanning verrry 
>carefully.)
>
>Note the stations coming in from the South (the "backside" of the D-Kaz). 
>The front-back nulling had been done the previous afternoon and the f/b null 
>may have drifted...but it's more likely that CX were such that these signals 
>simply were warm enuf to make it in.
>
>Mark Durenberger
>On the Road
>
>5-6 AM CDT adds TO D-KAZ LOGS  062314
>140 ft. Double-Delta oriented NNW
>
>560    KWTO    SPRINGFIELD MO
>580    KIDO      NAMPA ID
>590    KQNT    SPOKANE WA
>640    KWPN   MOORE OK
>650    KGAB    ORCHARD VALLEY WY
>680    KFEQ     ST JOSEPH MO
>740    KVOX    FARGO ND
>750    KHWG  FALLON NV
>770    KATL     MILES CITY MT
>810    KBHP    STURGIS SD
>900    KFAI     FULTON MO
>930    KSDN   ABERDEEN SD
>950    KWAT  WATERTOWN SD
>960    KMA    SHENENDOAH IA
>980    WPFP   PARK FALLS WI
>1000  KOMO  SEATTLE
>1030  KTWO  CASPER WY
>1050  KMTA   MILES CITY MT
>1070  KHMO  HANNIBAL MO
>1090  KAAY    LITTLE ROCK AR
>1100  WZFG   FARGO ND
>1130  CKWX   VANCOUVER BC CA
>1210  KHAT    LARAMIE WY
>1230  KGHS    INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
>1240  WMFG  HIBBING MN
>1270  KLXX     BISMARCK-MANDAN ND
>1290  KOWB   LARAMIE WY
>1310  KNOX    GRAND FORKS ND
>1320  KOZY    GRAND RAPIDS MN
>1340  KRBT    EVELETH-VIRGINIA MN
>1360  KHNC   JOHNSTOWN CO
>1450  KSSJ??  RUGBY ND  ID/DATA ARE DIFF
>1550  KRPI     FERNDALE WA
>1550  KAPE    CAPE GIRARDEAU MO
>1590  KGFK    GRAND FORKS ND 
>
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