[IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 7-21

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,

Thanks again to Dennis, Nick and Steve for their relative TP and DU 
signal reports (although they may all feel like throwing me off of the 
Oregon Cliff by now).

This morning the Cape Perpetua Oregon Cliif DXpedition wrapped up, and 
I was very pleased to welcome fellow Ultralight radio DXer Norm Clark 
(of Monmouth, OR) to join in the wild fun. Norm has a 7.5" MW loopstick 
PL-380 (of the new design, just concocted last week) and a 5" Medium 
Wave FSL (the model previously published with "Heathkit-like" building 
instructions).

Norm arrived at the cliff around 1210 UTC, and was promptly greeted by 
an unexpected Far East visitor, 774-JOUB, which pegged his PL-380's S/N 
display at 25. He then managed to receive 738-Tahiti without blowing 
out his Tecsun Ultralight's front end, although the French-language 
station's strength made the outcome questionable for an extended 
period. What really made Norm absolutely astonished was a booming 
signal from the New Zealand 5 kW Christian music broadcaster 684-NZ 
Rhema on his hot-rodded PL-380 and FSL, which convinced him that the 
normal rules of MW propagation do not apply on this Cliff!

It was another Kiwi-slanted morning at this 400' high ocean view site, 
with New Zealand running roughshod over all other South Pacifics. Once 
again 567-RN, 603-Waatea, 657-Southern Star, 675-RN and 684-NZ Rhema 
were pegging the PL-380 (+ 8" DXpedition FSL) S/N display at 25, and 
1008-Newstalk ZB joined this select group for a short period around 
1300. The Aussie X-banders were down for the count, making the 1701 kHz 
reception (and ID) yesterday the DXpedition's sole success in this 
aspect. 1584 kHz had weak music audio around 1250, but since even the 
Aussie Big Guns were anemic, this flea-powered station had a hopeless 
task in making itself heard with any strength. But the New Zealand 
stations really were on the Warpath this morning, and I'm glad that 
Norm was able to join in the Kiwi-slanted fun.

Last evening Ruth, Danny and I had the great pleasure of being invited 
to the best restaurant in Yachats, Oregon (at the Adobe Inn Motel) by 
Norm and his beautiful wife Dawn. Norm and I both shared some 
interesting stories about action in Vietnam, military life and other 
matters. Dawn listened patiently to our rambling about DXing and other 
matters, while I expressed my sincere apology for turning her husband 
into another Ocean Cliff DU-DXing fanatic.

Sorry for all the delayed resonses to emails during this DXpedition-- 
we are at the mercy of public library computers, which seem to be 
trained to cut off your access immediately before you have completed 
typing a lengthy upload.

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (now at the Alsea, OR public library computer, which is 
about to cut me off)  

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