Re: [IRCA] Excellent cx to the north

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Connelly or Ray Moore may recall some of this better than I can, since 
it was somewhat "before my time" as I was too young and didn't have a real 
DX set then. Anyhow..China on 1525 was commonly heard in New England by guys 
with good rx's. I never had a good set at that time but did here it on the 
HQ180A and Sanserino Loop when home from college for Xmas, just after the 
ITU frequency shift on 1521. Several others also nabbed them on that channel 
from time to time. It was the start of a AU and high band TA's from some 
more easterly areas were very enhanced even somewhat inland in Pawtucket RI. 
The Saudi simply was blasting in but went off just prior to 2300 leaving a 
second weak audio to be pulled past WKBW 1520 het. The IS and the gal in RR 
were unmistakable.

At the time Urumqi may have been using up to 2 or 2.5 MW and beamed it 
towards Russia in a direction the brought it nearly over arctic areas to New 
England, and off course it was also widely heard in UK and Scandanavian 
areas. I recall the direction from RI to Urumqi as being about 15 degrees. 
Urumqi is much more rare now, I think due to using somewhat less power 
and/or a non or different DA since politics have changed and the Chinese no 
longer feel a major potential threat from the USSR.

As for other receptions from the far east in N.E I have personally heard the 
Yankee Doodle IS on Ray Moore's tape of the Okinawa 1178 VOA test and at the 
start of that test his taped showed the 2 KHz het from 1180. Once again, 
this test was somewhat before my time.

>From Ogunquit Maine 1984/5 winter I managed to keep up a 1700 foot Bev aimed 
at Japan/AK etc for about 3-4 weeks around December and all I recall was a 
weak 747 het (Japan as TA's had long faded and didn't come in well on that 
wire) far below audio level. I could not maintain that wire, even though 
logging had long stopped for the winter (days 15-20 F in very cold wx even 
for southern Maine) as amazingly and even though it was carefully up 8+ feet 
in the woods, someone (likely the land owner) made it quite clear to me to 
keep out when the 1300 feet of wire not on my or my friendly neighbor's land 
was gone)

I did have some DU hets/carriers a couple times off the back of TA wires 
when they were unterminated, with 1044 NZ being almost audio level once, I 
felt.

73 KAZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'" 
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Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Excellent cx to the north


> It was late 60's / early 70's and (now here things get really shaky) it 
> was
> best heard off of the almost mile long Beverage in New Hampshire that 
> Nelson
> put up.
>
> Dunno if it ever made it into Boston, but it was definitely heard by GPN.
>
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Russ Edmunds
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 6:58 AM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Excellent cx to the north
>
>
>
> --- Bill Harms <wharms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I understand that North Korea has supposedly been heard in  the New
>> England in the 1970's.  that is not directly over the north pole, but
>>
>> it is fairly close.  Japan was heard on the East coast in the 1930's
>> according to the old DX mags.
>>
>
> *** While I was very active in international DX at the time, I don't
> recall anyone hearing North Korea in ECNA. If it happened, it would
> have likely been one of three DX'ers - Bill Bailey, Ray Moore or Gordon
> Nelson.
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20ID
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & APS9B @15'
> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
>
>
>

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