[IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 8-21

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,

Thanks very much to Dennis and Nick for their TP-DXing reports this 
morning, which are always very interesting. Nick mentioned that the 
DXing results here on the Oregon coast must have been quite a bit 
different... well, at the risk of having both of them drive down here 
and throw me off of the Cliff, here goes...

It was another bizarre morning here on the 400 ft. high cliff, which 
seems to generate its own enhanced DU propagation. Kiwis and Aussies 
were filling up most of the split frequencies, and figting it out 
loudly on frequencies like 594 and 792. The New Zealand stations still 
had the edge (with 567-RN, 603-Waatea, 657-Southern Star, 675-RN, 
756-RN and 765-Kahungunu pegging the PL-380 S/N reading at 25 at 
times), but the Aussies on 576, 774, 792 and 1116 proved that they 
could do the same thing. I stumbled across a loud fight on 792 between 
the Aussie 4RN and the 5 kW Kiwi station Radio Sport, which proved that 
it could put up a good fight against 4RN's music. 594 had another fight 
between NZ Rhema's low-powered Kiwi network and the 50 kW Aussie 3WV, 
and the low-powered Kiwi Christian network definitely was not turning 
the other cheek. 603-Waatea and 765-Kahungunu were both pegging the 
PL-380's S/N reading with parallel Maori-language programming at 1340, 
and by a stroke of luck I tuned into 585 kHz at the same time and found 
the same two Maori-language voices on the 2 kW Kiwi station on the 
frequency (an all-time new logging for me). Many other bizarre, obscure 
DU stations were fighting to be heard but the sunrise enhancement 
collapsed around 1400 before I could come close to tracking them all 
down (with my live Ultralight DXing). The experience of chasing DU's 
here on the sheer cliff with a hot-rodded PL-380 and an 8" FSL is 
radically different than any DXing experience I've ever had, and I've 
made it a point to record MP3's of all these weird signals so that 
other TP-DXers can share in the excitement (or maybe book their own 
trip to Cannon Beach or Yachats?).

Longwave DX had three Radio Rossii stations pegging the S/N display 
(153, 234 and 279 kHz), while 180 and 189 kHz had good signals. Even a 
presumed 164-Mongolia seemed to be rising above the noise level. NDB-DX 
was equally wild with 4 new Alaskans heard , including 414-IME and 
382-JNR, from the home airport of the Discovery Channel's "Flying Wild 
Alaska." Strangely enough, no South Pacific NDB's showed up this 
morning, although 238-KT had a very vibrant signal yesterday, along 
with fair signals from 260-NF and 270-FA. All in all, a very weird 
morning... with 3 more to come!

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (at Cannon Beach, OR)
DXing with a 7.5" Loopstick PL-380 + 8" MW and LW Ferrite Sleeve Loop 
antennas at "Rockwork 4" Highway 101 road side turnoff, 15 miles south 
of Cannon Beach at the southern border of Oswald West State Park, 
Tillamook County   

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