Re: [IRCA] NF ULR TA DX

[John Cereghin <jcereghin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Location, location, location.  My in-laws live in Nova Scotia and I
have a much easier time hauling TAs there even with a ULR barefoot
then I could ever hope to have here in Delaware.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Jim Renfrew <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> TA's are practically locals in Newfoundland.  I used Jean's wife's car there
> one day, a very unselective radio with 10 kHz channels, and the TA's were
> showing up way wide of their designated 9 Khz channel long before sundown. A
> bad radio, maybe even your dental work, will get you the usual powerhouse TA
> signals and a pile of Iberians.  Allen is diligent enough to get much more.
>  Now that he's out of St. John's he has a little more room to play with
> antennas.  But very interesting to see all of his reports from when he was
> in St. John's, DXing from Marconi's spot  after a brisk walk and ascent to
> Signal Hill.  And keep in mind people like Robert Ross have snagged 1000
> stations using an ULR.  I think some of its specs rival the old boat
> anchors, if not improve them.
>
> One beautiful thing about Newfoundland is that all of the northeastern 50 kW
> stations that normally plague us DXers in the northeast are a long way away,
> so there is a lot less local interference to get in the way of the rare
> stuff, and with beverages, longwires, phasing units it is possible to beat
> them back completely.
>
> Jim Renfrew
> .
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill kral" <jwkral@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] NF ULR TA DX
>
>
>
> I'm amazed at Alan Willie's TA DX list of snags with an otherwise not so
> sensitive little pocket radio and also a little envious since I'm not even
> getting any TPs with a fairly good full sized portable but then he's much
> closer to his TAs than I am to my TPs. But anyway whenever he sends in a
> report it always mentions the ultralights. I'd like to see what the results
> would be if he used a big rig with adjustable RF gain etc.and something like
> a loop antenna. Can we persuade him to do some DXing with something a little
> more sensitive -weather permitting ? Bill in BC
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