Re: [IRCA] DX on 530

[The Kaskey Family <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can jump into this memory jolter.....In late August 1977 I heard JOUB & 3LO together on 770 one morning around dawn.  The Australian 6 pips were very clear under JOUB....Also later that
winter I had several receptions of DYLA & Cayman Islands together on 1555.  I was using a HQ-140X at the time...Antenna was a SM-2.  Might have had the Wedge antenna for the latter reception.

don kaskey san francisco ca





Bob Foxworth wrote:

> > 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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