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[IRCA] DU's Take a Day Off
Hello Guys,
As reported by Steve, the DU's were very miserable this morning, even
right on the ocean beach. Guy Atkins had a 600' BOG run in the SW direction
hooked up to his E1 at the Grayland Beach access road, and I was using the
ICF-2010 with a 19.5" loopstick. Our net result was weak audio on 531 (on both
setups), and some moderate carriers on 612, and a few other frequencies. The
signal levels were far below stock Ultralight capabilities..
It was about 38 degrees on the beach, with a nice icy breeze around 4
AM, as we waited for some DX to show up. Nothing did, but even at that
bizarre hour a steady stream of clam diggers proceeded to the beach in their
RF-hash producing beater cars, staring at us like we were nuts. Around sunrise the
531 audio improved from hopeless to miserable, but the SRF-T615's were
completely unimpressed. Only the 20" loopstick model SRF-39FP had a trace of 531
audio, but no ID's (again).
Guy and I had planned to return to our Westport motel to catch a nap
before the 2-hour return trip, but we were both so frozen and frazzled that a
simultaneous decision was made to immediately drive both our cars straight
back to Puyallup. The total Ultralight DX tally for the night: JOUB-774,
barely reaching audio level on the SRF-T615 around 1200 UTC. It was truly a
lesson in humility, but at least we both learned to appreciate how lucky we have
been in past DXpeditions :>)
73, Gary
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