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Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA SÃo Tomà into West Michigan tonight!
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] 1530 VOA SÃo Tomà into West Michigan tonight!
- From: James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:58:34 -0500
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I got Sao Tome here on a beautiful night March 29, 2005 when Cincinnati was
off the air for some reason. I got Vatican Radio and VOA Sao Tome, both
QSLed, too. There was also a Spanish station, but I couldn't ID that one.
Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Tim Tromp <kilokat7@xxxxxxxxx> 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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