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Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] D-KAZ ADDS from 5AM-6AM scan 062314
See CAPS below
Mark Durenberger
On the Road
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From: neilkaz
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 5:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] D-KAZ ADDS from 5AM-6AM scan 062314
Now these logs are more like what I'd expect to see with that antenna and
QTH. Over the past few years, I've heard everything you list from here in IL
except 580 and 590. KIDO and KQNT both have adequate patterns and power to
make it here, but to my west 580 is mangled by WIBW and 590 destroyed by
KXSP. I checked distances and your's are just under 1100 miles to those two
stations and per my understanding of theory that can be a long single hop
whereas when you add close to 300 miles more to make it here to me near
Chicago a single low band hop is quite unlikely. But I am quite please to
see that I have hope for KIDO and KQNT although neither was noted on a great
early winter night about a decade ago when KVI was in under WNAX.
I'd have hoped to hear you say that you had a good enough back null on WMVP
to NOT have to wait for it to fade out due to daylight to let in KOMO.
CHECK THE LSS MAPS TO SEE IF THAT WAS A FACTOR IN THOSE BACK-SIDE STATIONS
SHOWING UP. I DON'T THINK IT WAS ANTENNA NULL-DRIFT.
Hmm...KAPE off the back end makes me a bit concerned about high end back
null depth but around sunrise and when there's only a couple stns coming in,
things can still be heard even if they are nulled 30 dB. SEE PREVIOUS
COMMENT
Considering CKWX was in, did you have any CKST (sports) mixing with WHO as
often happens here in season? YOU KNOW...I NEVER THOT TO CHECK, GIVEN HOW
W-H-O IS USUALLY A NIGHTLIGHT AROUND HERE. I'LL DO THAT.
Did you check X-band? KNTS (Spanish religious oriented and Spanish Christian
mx) should've been in on 1680 for example. Maybe there was Disney on 1640
once Milwaukee dropped out? I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH X-BAND, BUT I'LL GO
BACK AND CHECK
Your antenna is oriented NNW and that should give you a good chance at
Alaska this fall assuming cx cooperate. But if I could pick a direction for
this antenna from central MN is would be about WNW for western DX and I'd
expect enough back nulls to still knock down stns along bearings from
Chicago to Toronto/Montreal.
Calls on 1450 are KZZJ. 1590 KGFK is licensed to East G.F, MN now. THANKS
73 KAZ Barrington IL..and sick of T-storms for a week and a half
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Durenberger Mobile <Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jun 24, 2014 3:13 PM
To: "@NRC DX" <am@xxxxxxxxxxx>, DX-IRCA <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, MNDXC
<MDXC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Shafer <mikegjco@xxxxxxxxx>, Fred-ARRL
Baumgartner <K0FMB@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NRC-AM] D-KAZ ADDS from 5AM-6AM scan 062314
This is the stuff you chase down early morning, when it's still dark to
your
West and you can use that to advantage. The best example may be 1000,
where
we simply waited for WMVP Chicago to fade away in the daylight, and that
let
in KOMO.
Astute citizens will note that some of these catches are serious surprises,
in light of signals much closer to us here in North-Central Minnesota. But
there we are, thanks to the D-Kaz and in no small part to the great
resolution available in the Perseus SDR. (I missed a few of these on the
first pass and found them only after going back and scanning verrry
carefully.)
Note the stations coming in from the South (the "backside" of the D-Kaz).
The front-back nulling had been done the previous afternoon and the f/b
null
may have drifted...but it's more likely that CX were such that these
signals
simply were warm enuf to make it in.
Mark Durenberger
On the Road
5-6 AM CDT adds TO D-KAZ LOGS 062314
140 ft. Double-Delta oriented NNW
560 KWTO SPRINGFIELD MO
580 KIDO NAMPA ID
590 KQNT SPOKANE WA
640 KWPN MOORE OK
650 KGAB ORCHARD VALLEY WY
680 KFEQ ST JOSEPH MO
740 KVOX FARGO ND
750 KHWG FALLON NV
770 KATL MILES CITY MT
810 KBHP STURGIS SD
900 KFAI FULTON MO
930 KSDN ABERDEEN SD
950 KWAT WATERTOWN SD
960 KMA SHENENDOAH IA
980 WPFP PARK FALLS WI
1000 KOMO SEATTLE
1030 KTWO CASPER WY
1050 KMTA MILES CITY MT
1070 KHMO HANNIBAL MO
1090 KAAY LITTLE ROCK AR
1100 WZFG FARGO ND
1130 CKWX VANCOUVER BC CA
1210 KHAT LARAMIE WY
1230 KGHS INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN
1240 WMFG HIBBING MN
1270 KLXX BISMARCK-MANDAN ND
1290 KOWB LARAMIE WY
1310 KNOX GRAND FORKS ND
1320 KOZY GRAND RAPIDS MN
1340 KRBT EVELETH-VIRGINIA MN
1360 KHNC JOHNSTOWN CO
1450 KSSJ?? RUGBY ND ID/DATA ARE DIFF
1550 KRPI FERNDALE WA
1550 KAPE CAPE GIRARDEAU MO
1590 KGFK GRAND FORKS ND
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