Re: [IRCA] DXpedition Day 2 in Gearheart, OR

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

If it's any consolation, Kevin, conditions seem even poorer further inland.  Here in Victoria this morning, there was a reasonable carrier on 1475, and another on 738, and a number of fainter ones.  That's it...and this from a location where I keep hearing hints of Africa on 1566 in the evening.

Nick


At 13:54 7/30/2010, you wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>Well, I figured it couldn't be worse than yesterday, but it was!  Besides
>being a little wetter, cooler and windier, the DX was even more elusive. 
>There were occasional periods of VERY nice audio on 738 (Tahiti) and 891
>(Adelaide), brief appearances on 792 & 702, and what sounded like French
>on 639 most of the morning (Fiji?) but never quite got to intelligibility.
>
>However, on the whole it was a remarkably quiet morning for DX.  There
>were occasional static crashes throughout the morning, so there must have
>been some serious weather out to sea.  While yesterday there was a nice
>local sunrise peak that lasted for about a half hour, today I stuck a fork
>in it about 15-20 minutes after local sunrise since things just kept
>getting fainter and fainter.
>
>So, while the DX was not what Gary found last week a few miles down the
>road, where he was listening to TPs on a barefoot Sony SRF-T615, it was
>still great to get out and hear what DX I heard :-).
>
>Kevin S
>Bainbridge Island, WA
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