Re: [IRCA] Cape Perpetua DX - Sept. 13th

[d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Guy, 
 
Thanks for your detailed reports from the top of Cape Perpetua (Sept. 12th), and also from the lower Highway 101 turnoff yesterday. As far as I know, you are the first DXer to conduct a morning session at that lower turnoff. 
 
It isn't a well-known fact, but there are actually two Cape Perpetua Highway 101 turnoffs at a fairly high elevation. If a "sleeping squatter" is occupying the usual spot (which would be a real deal-breaker at that narrow turnoff, unlike at Rockwork 4 where we can work around them), you might try the "Cape Perpetua 1" turnoff, which is an extremely narrow spot about 200 feet to the north (photo posted at https://app.box.com/s/02a7sgfxci0gu23xmfjjx3rvmkaxlfpk Â). Although that turnoff is in a very dicey spot with the 18-wheelers coming straight at you, I have always thought that the steeper cliff and Asian-oriented direction of that narrow turnoff would be ideal for the ultimate Asian TP-DXing experience (assuming that you are prepared forÂvicious windstorms, "Chicken" contests with 18-wheelers and no trace of acrophobia). 
 
73, Gary DeBock (in DX-deprived Puyallup) 
 
 
 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Guy Atkins" <dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 11:12:19 PM 
Subject: [IRCA] Cape Perpetua DX - Sept. 13th 

This morning's DXing at a highway 101 turnout on Cape Perpetua, Oregon was 
quite productive! I didn't have the time to really dig into the 
recorded signals to make proper loggings, nor did I progress up the band 
beyond 1035 kHz. However, I had Japanese language audio on some 2nd and 3rd 
tier Japanese channels, which equals a pretty darn good opening in my 
opinion. 

Compared to yesterday's predominance of DUs, it was mostly Asian reception. 

Here's my brief notes: 

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AUST: 657 (pres.), 684 (pres.), 702 (mixing w/Japan), 891 (mixing w/Japan), 
1026 (pres), 

CHINA: 981 

HAWAII 940 KKNE 

JAPAN: 558, 567 (JOIK mixing with pres. R National), 594, 603, 612, 693 
(exc.!!), 747, 774 (exc.!), 828 (exc.!), 873, 909 (mixing w/unid), 

918, 945, 954, 963, 1008 (mixing w/Korea), 1017, 


NEW ZEALAND: 675, 882 (Star- EZL Christian music) 

SOUTH KOREA: 972 

TAIWAN: 738 BEL-2 

UNID: 585, 639, 729, 792, 927, 936, 1035 (Japan or S. Korea) 

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Here's an audio clip of KKNE Hawaii 940 with some really nice Hawaiian 
music from around 1335: 
https://app.box.com/s/b8g80u6y3v4cwncfdicfiflz0h8skl76 

This folder has two photos of the DXing location, and showing the fine 
Wellbrook ALA1530S+ Imperium antenna which works so well for these 
impromptu DXpedition sessions: Âhttps://app.box 
.com/s/zj1vp0kc4a028vt3c55n1tvypmj21sld 
<https://app.box.com/s/zj1vp0kc4a028vt3c55n1tvypmj21sld> Â The first 
picture is of the city of Yachats, taken from across the street from where 
our family is vacationing a few days. Cape Perpetua is seen in the distance 
with the Highway 101 "notch" in the hillside clearly visible. This section 
of the highway that is blasted from the solid rock has a small parking area 
at the 140 ft. high point, and is the place where my DXing pal Gary DeBock 
has spent many hours DXing with his famed FSL antennas. My DXing spot this 
morning was a couple hundred feet further down the highway among the trees, 
as seen in the 2nd photo with the Wellbrook antenna. The Wellbrook loop is 
very portable when mounted on an inexpensive tripod, and versatile too. 

73, 

Guy Atkins 
Puyalup, WA 
Elad FDM-S2 and Wellbrook ALA1530S+ Imperium loop antenna 
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