[IRCA] New Ultralight Firsts and Records Announced

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its been a month since I've updated the List of Ultralight Firsts and 
Records and there has been quite a bit of activity, including at long 
last, some work from the Pacific Northwest. The new Firsts from Asian 
countries were all snagged by our compatriots in the NW:

First Station in North Korea
            Gary DeBock, Grayland, WA Pyongyang BS-657 Kangnam 
3/14/2008 (**SRF-39FP**)
First Station in China
            Gary DeBock, Grayland, WA CRI Russian Svc.-963, Unk. Loc 
3/14/2008 (**SRF-39FP**)
First Station in Thailand
            Dennis Vroom, Salmon Creek, WA VOA-1575, Ban Rasom 
3/16/2008 (**SRF-39FP**)

Dennis Vroom's great reception of VOA-Thailand was achieved by 
inductively coupling his EWE to an otherwise barefoot SRF-39FP... he 
held the receiver against the down leg of the EWE and there it was, a 
new Ultralight country and a new overall ultralight distance record 
of 11721 km/7283 miles!!!!

Allen Willie and his best radio buddy, Lorne Harnum, also of St. 
Johns, have continued to snag Country Firsts in both Africa and Europe:
First Station in Egypt
             Lorne Harnum, St. John's, NF  ERTU-819 Batra, 2/29/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in Benin
            Allen Willie, St. John's, NF  TWR-1566, Parakou 
3/13/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in the Netherlands
            Allen Willie, St. John's, NF  R. Maria-675 Lopik 
2/20/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in the Faroe Islands
            Allen Willie, St. John's, NF  Utvarp Foroya-531 Akraberg 
2/22/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in Corsica
            Lorne Harnum, St. John's, NF  R. Bleue relay-1494 
2/29/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in Greece
            Lorne Harnum, St. John's, NF  ERA Sport-981, 
Athens  2/29/2008 (SRF-37V)
First Station in Cyprus
            Allen Willie, St. John's, NF  BBC-1323 via Zygi 
3/12/2008 (SRF-37V)

Finally, Allen also managed to wipe out Rob Ross' distance record for 
the American Graveyard Channels:
1427 km/866 miles Allen Willie, St. John's, NF  WBAE-1490 Portland, 
ME 2/20/2008 (SRF-M37V)

Well, that is it for this month. With equinox upon us, surely we'll 
see quite a few distance records fall in the next month. I happen to 
know that Walt Salmaniw is spending an extended Easter holiday at his 
cottage in the fabled Queen Charlotte Islands.  I really hope that he 
took a couple of ultralights along with his new Perseus SDR!  Time 
will tell....

The entire updated Firsts and Records List will be uploaded to the 
Ultralight Files area of dxer.ca in a few minutes.

John B.
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, NRD-535(kiwa-mods) + a small flock of 
Ultralights
Antennas: 700' NE/SW mini-Bev, Wellbrook Phased Array (pre-production version)

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