Re: [IRCA] Excellent cx to the north/ India over the pole

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

The other night I heard Ft. Bragg.  Maybe that was on a east to west reception course or maybe even better south to north?  Gotta keep up with you Pat :--------)...............OWG



Patrick Martin wrote:

> When I logged India back in 1992, I had a time fiquring out what
> exacting it was. Because the station was not in Hindi. I was in contact
> with DX friend John Bryant in Oklahoma who is a prof, at a Univ. in
> Oklahoma. I sent him a copy of the tape, and he played it for several of
> his students. One was from NE India, from the Shillong area. The station
> was broadcasting in a minority language at the time. The student
> understood the language to ID the tape. I then sent a copy of the tape
> to Shillong and to New Delhi and back came a full detail QSL card. That
> was in 1992.
>    Then in the Fall of 1993, I had a repeat of those conditions.
> Shillong was logged again, and Nepal on 792 khz in EE. Infact a couple
> times that season as I remember. Later in the year, I heard my 2nd Nepal
> station at Surkat, in Western Nepal. DXer friend Bruce Portzer IDed that
> tape as the ID was in EE.
>    Then in 1994, I had another repeat of the same conditions, hearing
> the above three again, and this time catching Bangladesh on 558 khz one
> morning. I was looking for Calcutta on 1134 at the time.
>   Tibet on 1323 in 1995 was another treat.
> but by 1995, the strange conditions I had been experimenting for the
> past 3  seasons were going fast. Since that time, they have never
> returned.
>    John and I discussion the reception between my QTH and
> India/Nepal/Bangladesh and the thought of the signal not going over the
> pole, but "bending" rather than a direct over pole situation. The AU
> would not play into the situation as much. At the time there was quite
> the discussion on the subject.
>   It was an amazing time for me. I just wonder if the Grayland or NFD
> groups would have been out at that same time, what would have been
> logged?  I don't use a beverage for the TP/DU DX here, just my
> terminated 22X100X22 foot EWE.
> Some reports of late by others in the World feel their EWE works better
> than a comparable beverage. I do know my EWE has brought me in a
> unbelieveable amount of DX in the over 24 years I have had it.
>
> 73,
>
> Patrick
>
>
> Patrick Martin
> Seaside  OR
> KAVT Reception Manager
>
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