Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 7-21; Victoria continues somnolence
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Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 7-21; Victoria continues somnolence

Hi Nick,
Thanks very much for the relative DX report from the SDR, and sorry that it didn't record past 1200UT. Even on the Oregon coast cliff the DU-DX was sparse before 1200, and brightened up considerably after around 1215. If it is any consolation for the lopsided DU-DX reports of the past few days, I'm back in the DX-deprived environment of Puyallup now, which is decidedly inferior to salt water-enhanced Victoria in almost every aspect.
The New Zealand MW propagation on this particular cliff (Cape Perpetua on Oregon's central coast, 2 miles south of Yachats) seemed to have some weird immunity from any major downturns during the 4-day period, although the Aussie station strength varied from strong to mediocre. The more exotic stations on 621 (Tuvalu) and 1440 (Kiribati) were impossible to hear because of 620-Portland and 1440-Medford, while 666-Noumea and 1017-Tonga were mediocre at best. This morning Norm Clark and I had a bizarre opening to Japan around 1210UT, with 774-JOUB pegging Norm's PL-380 S/N display at 25. 594-JOAK was also vibrant for a while, but both were long gone by 1230, giving way to the Cliff's typical stampede of overpowering Kiwi signals. Both 603-Waatea (5 kW) and 765-Kahungunu (2.5 kW) sounded like Big Guns every morning during the 4 days, and I soon plan to upload MP3's of them severely testing out the PL-380's crunch resistance on the 400' high Cliff. It seems like science fiction that neither of these Maori-language stations have ever been reported during any Grayland DXpeditions. 

73 and Thanks,
Gary DeBock (back in Puyallup, WA, USA)


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 2:38 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 7-21; Victoria continues somnolence 


This morning I slept in (up at 3AM yesterday was a little hard on the
old brain) and left the SDR to do the DXing...unfortunately, it too
got disgusted with the quality of the DX, and packed it in just
before 1200UT in spite of instructions to go on for another 40
minutes.    At any rate, the recording said that there were only
carriers heard in Victoria until 1200UT, and not very good ones at that.

best wishes,

Nick


At 20:04 21-07-12, you wrote:

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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