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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Beach DXpedition
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Beach DXpedition
- From: Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:26:14 +0000
For the life of me, I can't understand why a cliff face (being on top of a
cliff) offers any advantages to DXing, though. Wonder if anyone would offer
an explanation or guess. There have been discussions regarding having a
mountain or cliff behind you, but not on top. .........Walt
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, <D1028Gary@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Walt,
>
> Thanks for your comments, and I'm sure that every NW DXer would agree that
> your Masset DXpedition site has a great edge in propagation from the MIddle
> East, and Asiatic TP's.
>
> After five DU-chasing trips to Grayland with Ultralight equipment, I
> thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect in Lincoln City,
> Oregon-- but
> certainly never expected what I got. Nothing from the DU area had ever
> shown up for me on 585, 603, 666 or 684 kHz at Grayland, but all of these
> had
> DU signals at Lincoln City, with 585 and 603 both seeming to have weak DU
> co-channels. 738 had a Tahiti-2NR snarl that pegged the new PL-380's S/N
> display reading at maximum, and DU co-channels were pestering 639-Fiji and
> 657-Southern Star almost every morning. The situation seemed pretty
> ludicrous
> for someone with a $75 modified ULR and 3' tuned passive loop-- but it
> sure
> is easy to get used to!
>
> 73, Gary
>
>
> In a message dated 7/26/2010 10:40:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> salmaniw@xxxxxxx writes:
>
> Gary, a few miles sure seems to make a big difference. I recall down at
> Canon Beach DXing during a July week holiday a couple of years back, and
> being very impressed with the amount of DU dx audible only using my Sony
> 2010
> and built in whip. Seems to me that the further north we go along the
> coast, the more difficult the DU DX, and of course conversely the more
> Asian DX
> which pours in. In Masset in late June/early July there were mornings of
> decent DU reception, but nothing like you were hearing in Oregon. Then
> again, as I type this, I'm enjoying some Perseus files from 3January at
> 01:00
> this year from Masset, and have been blown away with the number of Iranian
> transmitters carrying the 1st program, so easy to locate parallels! Then
> there's Saudi Arabia 1440 way over anything domestic. Don't mention Radio
> Farda pegging the meter on 1575! Radio Sawa likewise on 1431 from
> Djibouti.
> Bottom line, wherever we listen from, there can be some pretty
> interesting programming to DX, domestic or foreign........Walt
> Salmaniw,Victoria.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: D1028Gary@xxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, July 26, 2010 19:07
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Beach DXpedition
> To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hi Guy,
> >
> > Thanks very much for listening to the 585 kHz MP3, and for
> > your helpful
> > comments.
> >
> > When I first tuned to 585 kHz (in Oregon) and heard the classic
> > rock at a
> > decent level, I had absolutely no idea what it was. Nothing like
> > that had
> > ever shown up for me at Grayland on my modest equipment. Many
> > other DU
> > surprises followed, though, like the fairly strong NZ Maori
> > station on 603, a DU
> > talk station fighting it out with 639-Fiji every morning, 666
> > kHz in
> > French, a 684 kHz parallel with 639-Fiji, a weak DU co-channel
> > (with talk
> > format) on 657 kHz with NZ's Southern Star, and other mysteries.
> >
> > The variety and strength of the DU signals in Lincoln City
> > was completely
> > unexpected, and made me wonder whether we were getting the
> > short end of the
> > stick at Grayland :-)
> >
> > 73, Gary
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 7/25/2010 11:30:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight
> > Time,
> > dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > Thanks for posting the MP3s. On the 585 recording, the meat
> > of the possible
> > ID is between 2:18.3 and 2:20.5, a mere two and a half
> > seconds! However,
> > I'm
> > 90% sure I'm hearing the male announcer with an Aussie
> > accent, and in
> > English as you mentioned.
> >
> > I've listened to it over and over, at 0.7x the original
> > playback speed
> > (with
> > pitch adjustment, in Total Recorder Pro). As best as I can
> > make out, I'm
> > hearing: "..news... ..??EB...Halpern (or
> > "Melbourne")" That's it! It's
> > a
> > real tough audio segment to understand. I hope another DXer can
> > make out
> > more details.
> >
> > The most promising clues that it's 585 2WEB is the Aussie
> > accent and the
> > "..EB" partial callsign that I might be hearing.
> >
> > A very nice DU catch on an ultralight, whatever it really
> > was, Gary!
> >
> > Guy Atkins
> > Puyallup, WA
> > http://fivebelow.squarespace.com
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