[IRCA] Grayland - Feb. 19-22, 2014

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

I visited Grayland, WA February 19-22, 2014 and did some TiVo SDR DXing using a 180' DKAZ antenna at ~280 degrees.

I'm still reviewing wav files but results thus far are here:

<http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland9.php>

Nothing earth-shattering though hearing Indonesia [on 999kHz] at any time is welcome.  A few observations:

- 180' DKAZ is a GREAT low-band antenna.  I've experimented with 88, 112, 128 and 140' versions before and this is by far the best for the low end.  Unfortunately, high end nulls suffer as a result and it may be that 160' is a 'sweet spot' that covers nearly the WHOLE band.

- Feb. 21 and 22 were like two different seasons as the 21st had nice sunrise enhancement to the Far East while the 22nd was more DU thanks to an A-index of over 40.

- I used remote termination - 9:1 transformer at the null end of the antenna, ~600' of CAT5 to Room 15 at the Grayland Motel where a 100 Ohm pot 'controlled' the null.  Worked very well and I was able to put a decent null on stations off-the-back as well as Portland area by virtue of being a little too close to the neighbors cyclone fence on the south side of the property which I believe skewed things a bit.

- I also ran a ~800' BOG directly west from just outside Room 15.  Not very impressive results on 'live' listening but I've yet to review Perseus wav files.

Check out the 'Summary stats', 'Map' and 'AzBar' links on the grayland9 page as well.  They're fun and maybe even useful.

Oh, and if you haven't visited one of my previous DXpedition webpages there's no 'traditional' logs -- just links to sounds along the far right side.  Click on the 'little x' and you'll hear what I heard -- dates & times as column heads.

Enjoy!

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA
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