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Re: [IRCA] MW DXpedition madness and RRI Fak Fak on 774
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] MW DXpedition madness and RRI Fak Fak on 774
- From: "Craig Edwards" <nutritionandsports@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:56:37 +0930
No worries Ira, I forgot to put the smiley face emoticon 8^) to show I was
only joking
The Mediumwave DXpedition scene is going to get scary here in south east
Australia again now that I've left Queensland to go back to South Australia,
it means I can team up again with Dave Onley from Victoria. We always seemed
to get ourselves in all sorts of trouble in the 90's, snakes were always a
common theme, it boggles the mind how one of us wasn't bitten.
cheers
Craig
Craig Edwards
ex Townsville, Queensland, Australia
now Adelaide, South Australia
Phone 0411 966633
email nutritionandsports@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville2004.dx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2004_09.dx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2004_10.dx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/mountisa_2004_10.dx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2005_01.dx
http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/mountisa_2005_02.dx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] MW DXpedition madness and RRI Fak Fak on 774
> I wasn't trying to stereotype you. I was just thinking the Oils would help
> paint a picture of what it's like down there. They are so good at what
they
> do and it's a shame they have broken up. I hope Peter can get elected down
> there and knock some sense into the government. And how will Uncle John do
> this time around?
>
> I actually got to meet them in the 80's on their first tour of America.
Nice
> guys they were.
>
> My Wife is the same way with Duran Duran. I would like to use those discs
as
> Frisbees!
>
> Once again...no offense. The Oils will have to do since I can't down under
> anytime soon.
>
> Bert
>
> G'Day Ira
>
> Must take offence at this, please don't pigeon hole me with a
> stereotype...............
>
> OK OK I confess on my last DXpedition to the I played the 'Diesel & Dust'
> Midnight Oil CD 5 times as we drove through the Northern Territory.
>
> My wife threatened to use it as a frisbee, I argued it was better than her
> WHAM CD, she's an 80's tragedy.
>
> Finally got one of three DXpedition's paperwork (tape analysing, loggings,
> photos, story and reception reports) done.
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/mountisa_2005_02.dx Convinced I need a
> secretary.
>
> OK better shut up and get on with DXpedition number 2's stuff to go
through.
> This one was for North Americans so I might have bother a lot of the guys
> over there with help on unids.
>
> cheers
>
> Craig
>
> Craig Edwards
> ex Townsville, Queensland, Australia
> now Adelaide, South Australia
> Phone 0411 966633
> email nutritionandsports@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville2004.dx
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2004_09.dx
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2004_10.dx
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/mountisa_2004_10.dx
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/townsville_2005_01.dx
> http://www.dxing.info/dxpeditions/mountisa_2005_02.dx
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:56 PM
> Subject: [IRCA] Re: MW DXpedition madness and RRI Fak Fak on 774
>
>
> >Everytime I read your stuff and look at your pictures, I just wanna'
throw
> >on some Midnight Oil or Hunters and Collectors and imagine I'm there. I
so
> >want to visit your country. In my eyes, you're a lucky guy to have all
> that
> >down there. Keep up the good work and keep sending this American tales
> from
> >Down Under!
> >
> >
> >
> >Ira Elbert New, III
> >Watkinsville, Georgia
> >"Proudly Serving You Since 1964"
> >
> >
> >>From: "Craig Edwards"
<nutritionandsports@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Reply-To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of
> >America<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>To: "IRCA" <IRCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> ><ARDXC@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Hard Core DX"
> ><Hard-Core-DX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <mwdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> ><mwoz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: [IRCA] MW DXpedition madness and RRI Fak Fak on 774
> >>Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:03:41 +1030
> >>
> >>Hi Guys and Gals
> >>
> >>Well just returned from a crazy month of DX.
> >>
> >>In early February I managed a few mornings DXing at dawn while on a
> >business trip to Mount Isa in western Queensland. Then a couple of weeks
> >later I finished up my job in Townsville, Queensland.
> >>
> >>Next day in mid February started almost a week at Balgal Beach near
> >Townsville in a tent chasing North American MW DX.
> >>
> >>Then 2 days later the wife and I watched the removalists take away
our
> >household items so they can be freighted off to South Australia to
> complete
> >our final move from Townsville, Queensland.
> >>
> >>Next day my wife and I started our big drive from Townsville to Mount
> >Isa (Queensland) and then through the Northern Territory to Tennant
Creek,
> >up to Katherine, back down to Tennant Creek, to Alice Springs to Uluru
> >(Ayers Rock), to Erldunda and across the Northern Territory/South
> Australian
> >border to Coober Pedy and finally to Adelaide. This drive involved 14
> days,
> >12 dawn listening sessions trying for Africa/Europe/Middle East (and
> Asia),
> >and 6000km travelled in the car - and lots and lots of tapes.
> >>
> >>Now I'm in Adelaide and my wife and I are staying with my mother in
> law
> >............
> >>
> >>Next week I start my new job in South Australia and in mid-May the
> >tenants in our house will finish their rental lease so we'll get our
> >beautiful house back.
> >>
> >>So everyone you'll have to excuse my lateness when I eventually get
> out
> >reports and trails for the Mount Isa trip, the Townsville beach trip and
> >then the Northern Territory 2 week trip. After all this is only a hobby
> and
> >not a job so the deadlines aren't a huge priority considering we have
just
> >moved across the country, living in a family members house as all our
> stuff
> >is in storage for 2 months and we're both starting a new job.
> >>
> >>BUT!! there is a bit of news I wanted to pass on, even though all the
> >dates, times, etc aren't complete - the unid RRI Indonesian listed in
> Bruce
> >Portzer's PAL (what a brilliant resource!) on 774 kHz is indeed active
> still
> >and ID'ed as RRI Fak Fak. This was heard very nicely at Northern
Territory
> >sunset in Tennant Creek (not heard in Katherine due to Hot 100 on 765
kHz)
> >around 1000 UTC at very good levels, equal in strength to regular RRI
> >Merauke on 810. ID'ed on March 4th and well heard during mid-March from
> >Uluru, Erldunda and Coober Pedy. Only really looked at this once the
> >following week during my local sunrise as I was busy chasing
> African/Middle
> >East and Europe Trans-Indian MW DX. However on March 15 noted it around
> 2000
> >UTC (sorry for vagueness of time, doing this from memory) and it was //
> >4790v. So it appears RRI Fak Fak is up and running nicely for now on 774.
> >Get in quick though, remember when RRI Wamena on unlisted 1395 was really
> >strong and noted regularly in Townsville last year from but I haven't
> heard
> >a thing from them since before January this year.
> >>
> >>Again guys, I'll try and get the results of these DX trips out ASAP -
> >Mount Isa business trip stuff should be out by next week.
>
>
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