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Re: [IRCA] Kona dial tune 0630 U
I'm curious, looking at the map, if anyone has tried to listen from the westernmost island of Hawai'i instead of from Kona. Is Kona a sort of sweet spot where someone once saw that the signals were superior or is there another reason for this specific location, historically speaking? It seems that things on the outlying islands could be quieter than on the Big Island. I mean, it's a tad harder to access and fewer services, but for hardcore DXers (of which anyone heading to Kona or the Pacific coast typically are), it would be do-able. Heck, for FM DXing, I used to climb a mountain just to get to my spot and would regularly climb 2,000+ foot mountains for my bandscans. You do what you have to do to get the signals you want.
-Chris Kadlec
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 10:13:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Kona dial tune 0630 U
Thanks for the report from Kona, Colin.
<<< The last few nights I?ve looked, there has been no evidence of 846 KHz even being on the air. >>>
If 846-Christmas Island isn't pounding in after local sunset in Kona then its transmitter is almost certainly QRT. It was on the blink last month, so certainly not very surprising.
<<< No sign of 1098, 1017 or 846 KHz. >>>
1098 should also be around after local sunset, but 540, 1017 and 1440 typically need about an hour after Kona sunset to show up.
<<< Found a couple of sweet spots along the sea wall between the Hale Kona Kai and the Royal Kona where Gary DeBock would have DXed only a few weeks ago... where the noise level, while still omnipresent, is not drowning out everything in its path. >>>
You are welcome to use my old beachfront DXing hot spot by the fake Hawaiian boat on the Royal Kona property, Colin. Nobody ever questioned me the whole time I was DXing there!
Gary
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