Re: [IRCA] NE Oregon TPs, Friday

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Walt,
 
Thanks for your interesting comments about the Oregon coast DU  propagation.
 
Before our vacations in Oregon, Guy and I had a nice discussion about how  
your Haida Gwaii location had a definite edge in TA and Asiatic  TP 
propagation (over Victoria, Grayland, etc.) and how Patrick  Martin seemed to have 
somewhat of an edge in DU propagation over  everyone else. We discussed the 
unusual results of the July DXpedition to  Lincoln City, OR, in which a 
humble Ultralight radio and 3' loop solidly  received many DU's that aren't 
exactly "regulars" at Grayland. After this recent  3-day trip, it's easy to 
become a true believer that the Oregon coast  does indeed have somewhat of a DU 
propagation edge over Grayland, judging  by the 7 previous ULR Dxpeditions 
that John and I made to Grayland over the  past 2 years, where we had nowhere 
near the DU success that these last two  Oregon trips have produced. Guy 
also plans an investigation of the DU  propagation during his current Oregon 
beach vacation, and I'll be very  interested in his report. Unfortunately the 
Asiatic TP's are starting to  seriously compete with the DU's now in NW 
Oregon, so we may need to postpone  further investigation until around next 
spring.
 
73, Gary      
 
 
In a message dated 8/22/2010 9:32:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
canswl@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Great  report so far, Gary.  Clearly the Oregon coast sounds like a place 
that  must be further explored and used, now that Grayland has become a 
little less  accessible and quiet.  No doubt the DU stations are simply much more 
 difficult to hear up in these parts, and more so on Haida Gwaii (with a  
notable exception of my one night DC only DXpedition to Rose Spit on the 
north  east corner of Haida Gwaii, when the entire band was full of NZ and 
Australian  MW stations (August, 2008).  At the cottage, the DU stations are 
always a  fairly difficult catch, compared to Asia, and even Europe!   .....Walt

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:25 AM, <_D1028Gary@xxxxxxxx 
(mailto:D1028Gary@xxxxxxx) > wrote:

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the rundown of the DU's in NE  Oregon on Friday.

I was indeed listening carrefully for DU's on  Friday morning in your home
state (at Lincoln Beach), and found it  fantastic. DXing with a C.Crane SWP
Slider (with the Murata filter  installed by you) inductively coupled to a
new 4'  portable PVC  Loop, I made nice MP3's of 558-Radio Fiji One (all
alone), a solid  recording of an ABC station on 846 kHz (with ABC ID), and a
strong 1017  kHz mix of Radio Tonga island music and the 2KY Australian 
horse
racing  station (with both alternating in dominance). Both John B. and I  
had
received 1017-Radio Tonga before at Grayland, but I'm pretty sure  that the
other  3 stations had never been previously received by  ULR's on the west
coast. Many  other nice DU's also showed up again,  like 603-Radio Waatea 
in NZ.

The LW conditions were also great, with  the new stand-alone 7.5" LW
loopstick PL-380 solidly receiving all 5  Radio Rossii LW-TP's (153, 180, 
189,  234
and 279 kHz) yesterday  morning, with 4 nice MP3's made. I plan to write up
the full DXpedition  report (and upload various MP3's) shortly, but as far
as DU propagation  to Lincoln Beach, the vacation was all I could have hoped
for.  Oregon state is great! :-)

73, Gary DeBock (back in Puyallup,  WA)


In a message dated 8/20/2010 6:42:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight  Time,
_steveratz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:steveratz@xxxxxxxxxxxx)   writes:

I  predict if Gary DeBock was listening this morning at  the Oregon coast
that
he had super reception of DUs, as even far  inland here they were much
better
than usual. Many MW hets. 585 very  poor DU talk; 702 poor EE pop  music;
738
poor EE pop music; 792  very poor DU talk; 891 the best with  medium DU talk
presumed 5AN;  1116 weak DU talk presumed 4BC, all in the  1305-1320  utc
time.
891 the last to fade away around 1320. Big het on  1071, don't remember
that
before.
Far East Russia, Radio  Rossii good  this morning, 153, 180, 189, 234, 279
at
1200  utc.
73,
Steve
NE  Oregon
R75,  longwires

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