Re: [IRCA] DX on 530

["Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> How about Japan and Australia on 774?  They're farther from us (and
each
> other) than either Adak or T&C.   For that matter, any simultaneous
> reception of OZ/NZ with Far East stations would be a wide spread.
>
> Bruce.
>
> Chuck Hutton wrote:
>
> >How about Tarawa-844 and Rome-845? From the east coast, several DXers
heard
> >this as sunrise approached in Italy. Tarawa was only a het to me, but
Al
> >Merriman and others heard audio from both.
> >
> >Not quite so geographically impressive: Peru and Spain-854 together
at fair
> >levels. I see on Radio Nacional de Peru's web page that they still
list the
> >oddball 854 frequency, but I think it's been gone for quite some
time.
> >
> >
> >Chuck


I remember from long ago, reports of Japan-750 mixing with Jamaica
(when JBC Port Maria/Galina Pt. was active from there) and I think
the reporter was Larry Godwin when he lived in Boulder, Colorado.

Another one was 2UE Sydney 950 mixing with Buenos Airea, Argentina.
I have to stretch to remember the call but it may have been LR3.
Was John Callarman the reporter for this one?

Obviously these are all pre-1978.

I am one of those who experienced the 844-845 effect, most notably on
the one morning in 1971 when I got enough on 844 to QSL them. I
was in Long Island NY then. The Tarawa v/s Alan Robins commented
on the number of reports he got that morning, and how well they
were heard on WCNA.. He was able to identify by name the voice of the
female announcer I recorded, said she had come from the island of
Funafuti "in the Ellice" (Kiribati, pronounced Kiribas, was known as the
Gilbert and Ellice Island Colony then). Apparently the fact that I had
sent
a tape made the difference in getting a lengthy letter QSL and not an
aerogramme as some others did. I had also mentioned in my letter
my broadcast experience. "Social engineering"?  It worked.

My 844 was on a HQ-150 and a Nelson Altaz loop, on the 2nd floor
of a 4-story apartment building which had window exposure to the east!!.
This during the one year I lived there before getting a house. I think I
hrd
audio twice again after that but non-reportable levels, that same or
next year, which was I think near a solar minima (1973-74).

BTW the pronunciation "kiribas" is the closest they could come
to saying "gilberts" in the local language. That's why.

844, being my best-of-all-time logging, causes me to add whatever I
can to the historical knowledge pool entropy whenever I read of it.

- Bob

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