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Re: [IRCA] [CapeDX] DXpedition to Chesapeake Bay



--- Begin Message --- Hi Bill. Paraguay 780 is a nice catch. Chris Black had it a few years ago at the Fort Hill Park site, Eastham, MA. I had another Paraguay (1020) at the Rowley, MA salt-marsh several years ago (and long-gone 645 way back in the '70s). PEI guys had Paraguay on 920 last autumn. Seems to be too much WHJJ, CKNX, and WURA on this end to extract much from Latin America on 920.

On 780, Radio Coro (Venezuela) is the typical big dog here at night, followed by ZBVI and WBBM. WCKB does pop into the mix around sunset but vanishes quickly as darkness conditions settle out.

I heard Radio America (Argentina) 1190 from Granite Pier in Rockport, MA in the early 2000s. Also I've had 1190's from Colombia and Puerto Rico there. Combo WLIB-NY groundwave and skip make 1190 a rougher go here on Cape Cod.

1070 should be the best Argentina here. I heard them in the '80s from my parents' place about 3 miles west of here. Even though CBA was still on then, the aurora was so good that the weak remnant CBA groundwave was out of the game on an antenna aimed SSE. 1070 is kind of an "I-bocky" mess nowadays and mostly what I get is Colombia.

1030 Argie has been heard in recent years by Roy Barstow in Falmouth, MA. Nulling WBZ is the trick here, again (like the NYC stations) a messy skywave + groundwave proposition unless aurora kills the skip. Then you could be in fat city with just easily-nullable groundwave (and that's not even an issue for WBZ south of the NJ shore).

I'm surprised that you have a lot of domestics on channels that are usually crushed by Cubans here, e.g. 600, 670, 710 where the Rebeldes are fire-breathing monsters. Also interesting that there are empty channels such as 750 (typically YVKS/Cuba/CBGY/WSB shoot-out here with a once-in-a-blue-moon Brazilian at beach sites). And wow, nothing - 770, where Cuba and WABC battle it out regularly high on the S-meter here with Colombia occasionally "backgrounding" or "underrumbling" (as we might say in Hauserese).

It's obvious, by the absence of NY etc. stations, that the antenna and conditions were jacked to the south.

You will likely find a lot more as you go over the captures. Having noted Brazil on 1100, it would not be surprising to find it on 1220 too. The reverberated Globo ID's and synthesized "wolf whistles" blow through the other crud (typically ME & OH here) on a regular basis even when other aspects of the programming aren't as clear.

Nothing noted on 1340 and 1350 probably means, in the 1340 sense, that your DKAZ is doing a good job blocking Atlantic City. Would 1350 still have slightly-off-channel WGPL Norfolk, or are they off?

Seems like 1390 would probably be Charleston, SC. (It's mostly WEGP here since WPLM doesn't get out its backyard - but your antenna wasn't aimed this way.)

1650: VA, Canadian, or nothing?  I would guess VA.

I didn't see TA's but I think that Mauritania 783 might have a chance. Also look for Sao Tome VOA 1530 around 0300 UTC sign-on with "Yankee Doodle." This can definitely cut through the domestic crud.

Thanks for this good report!

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Whitacre bw@xxxxxxx [CapeDX] <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; am <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>; CapeDX <CapeDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; lbi-dx <lbi-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; coastalroundtable <coastalroundtable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 9:57 am
Subject: [CapeDX] DXpedition to Chesapeake Bay






I just returned from a short, cold and windy DXpedition to a house called Waters Edge near Fleeton, VA -- just a couple of roads down from a place I've been a few times in the past - Bay House.

Conditions were 'interesting' - both from a propagation and weather perspective.

I'm still going through wav files and putting up sounds but you can have a look at what's there now and 'follow along' over the next week or so as I add more at this URL:

http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we.php

Highlights included, so far; Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, tons of Cubans and what must be nearly every station in Florida! Some of this on a night [Jan. 7-8] with an A index up well above 30 but a couple of de-telescoped masts on my 160' DKAZ facing ~145 degrees.

Anyway, now that I've had a chance to warm up, it was fun and educational -- NEVER by crappy tie-wraps and expect them to last through REALLY cold weather and wind!

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA




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