Re: [IRCA] MN South Pacific carriers 0830 UTC 9/25

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> 1548 probably 4QD Australia, L3-4 at times; 1035 6 kw Solomon Islands or 20kw Wellington, NZ?; 846 Vanuatu assumed; 702 Australia? How strange the WC people were reporting almost 100% mainland Asia rather than DU, fixed antenna directions the cause?
> Eton E1 w/8" Quantum loop. 73, George S., MN
> 

I would normally defer to the experts; like Nick, John and Guy... and Walt...

But.

I think there could be a wide variety of reasons why
Pacific Island stations penetrate further into
the heartland of America, leaving the typical Japanese
stations behind...
actual distance, angle of arrival, skip zones, etc.

My thinking is - if you want to "hear" the Pacific from
the Mid-West to the East, go for the Marshall Islands on 1098.

If you want to "detect" a Pacific station, go after Tahiti on 738.

Some Japanese stations have a good shot -- because many of them are coastal...
BUT - they are subject to auroral conditions and are absorbed while
Pacific signals arrive from a more southerly bearing.


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