Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-6

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, to be honest, I've never looked for Latins from Masset.   I suspect,
though, that I'd have a really tough time with the lower 48 and BC/Alberta
to contend with before I could reach anything in Latin or South  America.
 Walt

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Mark Connelly via IRCA <
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> Subject: Re: Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-6
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> <<
> Last night there was no high level propagation to Alaska and only the
> weakest of hets on 738 kHz
> >>
>
> Does anyone out west ever TAKE ADVANTAGE of auroral conditions and aim
> antennas for Latin America?
>
> Or is it mostly gloom-and-doom since only Tahiti 738 registers in the TP
> sweepstakes?
>
> One area I almost never see reports on is west coast South America ...
> Chile etc.  Impossible except from Hawaii or Down Under or (oddly)
> Scandinavia?
>
> Is Masset / Haida Gwaii far enough out and away from the Vancouver,
> Seattle, etc. rabble to have a shot, or would one have to do a DXpedition
> to the Aleutian Islands to assure enough over water path and a great enough
> distance from Pacific time zone pests?
>
> On the East Coast the parallel situation is Newfoundland versus East Coast
> US.  Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, and other deep South Americans do better
> in NL than in MA, NY, NJ, etc. because the clutter of Eastern time zone
> domestic stations (and pest Cubans - analogous to Mexicans out west) is
> down at a manageable (rather than in-your-face) level.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> <<
> While on topic - for those of you that hearken back to REGEN receivers (We
> have all used one...)
>
> Here is a bad boy that puts all REGEN's to shame.
>
>
> https://aa7ee.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/the-sproutie-mk-ii-hf-regen-receiver/
> >>
>
> In the pre-SDR days when I tuned my R-390A or Drake R8A to one station at
> a time, I found that a regenerative preselector ahead of the receiver could
> sometimes be a valuable tool.
>
> The one I used was:
> http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/mwt3.pdf
>
> With those top shelf receivers the improvement was not as great as with
> receivers offering less selectivity and sensitivity.  Car radios,
> portables, and cheaper communications receivers such as the Kenwood R600
> really got a performance boost with the regeneration.  The high-Q tuning
> definitely helped in urban areas where a broadband antenna of good gain
> would present too many strong signals at once, causing intermod / images /
> overload.
>
> Users of the Kiwa Loop got similar regeneration benefits.
>
> Now, with the Perseus, I don't use regenerative preselection much.
>
> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
> South Yarmouth, MA
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>
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