Re: [IRCA] Sunset DX (Hah)

[Bob Coomler <w6rjc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Trade offs, Don, trade offs.  A gorgeous day in
northern California without humidity and very large
insects. No offense to the midwest dwellers, but I've
been on both sides and I'll take this one (as will my
Omaha born wife).  :-)

Bob Coomler
Cloverdale, CA (where KDXU is wandering in and out at
2040 PDST)

--- The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It still amazes me (and by this time it shouldn't)
> how bad summer time
> sunset/sunrise dx is at this location (San
> Francisco).  Every year I get
> the same results, which is one whit more than zilch.
>  This evening for
> instance, our sunset time is 8:30 pm PDT.  I'm
> listening just before 8
> and the band sounds like midday.  Nothing there but
> my daytimers & the
> normal 5 tons of QRN.  Tried 890 and got a fairly
> weak KLFF and that's
> all.  Boise sunset time is 8:30 also but not a peep
> out of KDJQ.  No
> sign of KDXU either, for that matter.  Listened at
> TOH to KKXX Paradise
> on 930 (just for something to do) and noticed why
> dxers continue to go
> gray these days.  No ID at TOH just a long pause
> where the ID should
> have occured and into SRN News.  When SRN News
> finished about 7 minutes
> later there was about a 90 second dead air period
> until their next
> program came on.  Bleah!
> 
> Compare this to my sunset dxing from NW Iowa.  In
> the early 80s I had
> excellent results at sunset in both June and August
> when I was back
> there on vacation(s).  My logs from the early 50s
> also show many, many
> stations logged in the summer.  San Francisco is
> absolutely the pits for
> summer sunset dx and my recent tries at sunrise have
> found the same
> results..........
> 
> No wonder you guys are all dxing FM & TV.........
> 
> don k.
> 
> 
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