Re: [IRCA] Nov. 7th: Ionosphere Delivers a Gold Mine to the Pacific NW

["bill [his.com]" <bw@xxxxxxx>]

How does the S3 do on MW & HF Walt?

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> On Nov 7, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Agree, Bill.   A very nice problem to have.  We haven't had the greatest
> conditions on the east coast.  Nothing overnight here, as far as I know.
> This morning, the weather was perfect, so 4 of us went for a long walk
> along the beach, then bushwacked our way home, but as this place is
> surrounded by salty lagoons, we had to back track to make it back to the
> house.  It's just coming up to our TA time, so here's hoping something
> decent today.  Looks like conditions again will take a turn for the worse
> in the next 2 days.  You win some, you lose some.  Bill Nollman showed me
> the joys of meteor FM scatter last night.  His new Elad FDM S-3 can record
> the entire FM band.  Sure fun watching the blips of meteor scatter.  Just
> maybe, I might have to get into FM DXing!    73,....Walt
> 
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 6:18 PM Guy Atkins <dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I hope other DXers in the Northwest, from the Victoria crew southwards,
>> found last night to be a fascinating time at the dials.
>> 
>> At my temporary Cape Lookout post in Oregon, I noticed a few Japanese
>> stations in audio more than an hour and a half before Japan sunrise. With
>> 4.5 terabytes of hard drive space on my laptop now I decided to just let
>> SDR recording continue uninterrupted through the night.
>> 
>> Spot checks a few times through the night showed a wealth of TPs up and
>> down the band. When I stopped recording at 1645 UTC (nearly two hours past
>> local SR), a handful of Chinese and Korean signals were still providing
>> weak but clear audio.
>> 
>> So... what a turnaround from the previous two mornings. I'll be interested
>> to know others impressions of DX on Nov. 7th, as I face an SDR DXer's
>> dilemma of how to approach over 11 hours of productive DX recordings!
>> 
>> 73,
>> Guy Atkins
>> Puyallup, WA
>> DXing from Cape Lookout State Park, OR
>> FDM-S2 / IC-7300 / ALA1530LNP @20 ft. / 10-inch FSL / portable RXs
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