Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA SÃo Tomà into West Michigan tonight!

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Oops!  I guess I was thinking more of the south coast and lower 48!  Walt

On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Walt -
>
> How quickly they forget..... We all heard it from your cabin in 2007.
>
> Chuck
>
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA]     1530 VOA SÃo Tomà into West Michigan tonight!
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> Great catch, Tim!  I think it would be an impossible catch to the west
> coast...73,  Walt
>
> On Tuesday, January 26, 2016, Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > After several attempts trying for this one, persistence finally pays off.
> > I've actually been hearing them sign on at 0300 UTC for the last few
> nights
> > with their Yankee Doodle interval signal but the signal strength has been
> > just one notch above imaginary.  If I didn't know what to listen for then
> > I'd never be able to pick it out under WCKY.  Per a suggestion from Kaz
> > himself last year, I changed things up tonight and decided to try phasing
> > the D-KAZ against a short wire on the ground about 60 feet long and
> > parallel to my north/south D-KAZ.  This knocked down WCKY a bit more
> (more
> > than I could achieve by using my remote null pot).  With the D-KAZ
> switched
> > to the North and phased against the short north-south wire, here's what I
> > pulled in tonight on 1530 at 0258 UTC:
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peBt3PM8esA
> >
> > Hearing that sign-on announcement tonight on a domestic channel was pure
> DX
> > adrenaline!
> >
> > 73,
> > Tim Tromp
> > West Michigan
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