Re: [IRCA] Barrow, Alaska... good DX site?

["Mauno Ritola" <Mauno.Ritola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd expect it to be an excellent MW DX QTH for the next five years (in the 
winter).

73, Mauno Ritola
Finland

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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Barrow, Alaska... good DX site?


> Patrick Martin wrote:
>
> > John Adams went to Churchill MB years back and said he could not hear
> > anything other than the 250w local at night. So it might not be too good
> > for DX.
> >
> > Patrick Martin
> > Seaside  OR
> > KAVT Reception Manager
>
> -------------I dxed from Iceland in 1955-56.  Keflavik AFB was just below 
> the Arctic Circle.  DX was excellent from October when I first listened 
> through December.  Shortly after the first of
> the year conditions deteriorated badly.  Assume I was in the auroral 
> doughnut by then.  I gave up on AM and went over to the Ham bands. 
> Unfortunately I did not go back to AM in the early
> spring.
>
> I would think the dxers in Sweden, Norway & Finland should be able to give 
> us a better current handle on this situation.  But I dunno if good dx 
> would be worth spending any length of time (at
> least the winter) in Northernmost Alaska.  Brrrrrrrrr!
>
> don
>
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