I know the engineer, I'll ask.

Why do we claim somethings on day power when we cant prove it? thats why
stations dont wanna deal with DX'ers

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:37 PM Volodya S <canswl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unusual propagation into Victoria. 880 is normally dominated by KIXI from
> Seattle. Tonight, though, there's been a hodge podge of cochannels on
> 880. There's a Spanish speaker there (dominating at 03:34 UTC, perhaps
> KWIP, Dallas OR? But at 03:25 or so, there was a very clear ID. "Turn
> your dial all the way to the right, 107.9 KJJR". That's interesting, as
> they didn't mention 880 at all. KJJR is listed for Whitefish, MT with 10
> kW day, and 500 watts at night. Nice catch. Maybe on day power? Wonder
> whether this was one of the Montana stations that had DX tests maybe 10
> years ago? 73,....Walt
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I just checked with the engineer at KJJR and he assured me after checking
the transmitter via remote control, that its running its 500W Non
directional night power

Paul

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:38 PM Paul B. Walker, Jr. <
walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know the engineer, I'll ask.
>
> Why do we claim somethings on day power when we cant prove it? thats why
> stations dont wanna deal with DX'ers
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:37 PM Volodya S <canswl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unusual propagation into Victoria. 880 is normally dominated by KIXI from
>> Seattle. Tonight, though, there's been a hodge podge of cochannels on
>> 880. There's a Spanish speaker there (dominating at 03:34 UTC, perhaps
>> KWIP, Dallas OR? But at 03:25 or so, there was a very clear ID. "Turn
>> your dial all the way to the right, 107.9 KJJR". That's interesting, as
>> they didn't mention 880 at all. KJJR is listed for Whitefish, MT with 10
>> kW day, and 500 watts at night. Nice catch. Maybe on day power? Wonder
>> whether this was one of the Montana stations that had DX tests maybe 10
>> years ago? 73,....Walt
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Chris and All,

<<< Cool, so do I go to any Costco or is this package available from any travel agent? >>>

You will probably need to go through Costco to get this particular package, although other travel agents may offer similar deals. Other motels may not have the convenient, beachside patio DXing area like the Aston at Poipu Kai, though, and may have bad RFI, or antenna restrictions. It's tricky to find a Hawaii motel where you can avoid these issues, and concentrate on long range DX.

The Costco Travel home page is at https://www.costcotravel.com/
Anyone can search the site for the best vacation deal (airfare, motel, rental car and extras), but you will need a Costco Member number to actually book the vacation deal at the end of the process. There are many different options in motels, airlines, rental cars, luaus and other extras (even helicopter tours), so the package that we booked can easily be modified if someone has other ideas. In general, you can save some $ $ by flying on United Airlines, but Costco knows that this option "isn't going to fly" with most travelers, so Delta is the default option for our vacation (at around $ 2,400 for 6 days and 5 nights at the Aston at Poipu Kai).

73, Gary

Somewhat beefier this morning, as Craig reported. Sunrise is rapidly moving earlier, as are the best DXing times.

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly):

594 JOAK 1443UT //567

774 JOUB 1414UT

Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splash or noise):

567 JOIK //594 1443UT

828 JOBB 1443UT

972 HLCA two men in Korean, then woman 1420UT

not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker:

603 HLSA likely soft vocal music 1425-1427UT

747 JOIB 1420UT

Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music)

657 female operatic singing, likely N. Korea? 1502UT

666 JOBK //594 1421UT

693 JOAB //774 1415UT

873 JOGB //774 1418UT

1422 woman talking, Japanese intonation, pop music 1508-20UT

1503 JOUK //594 1516UT

1566 woman talking, perhaps Chinese, but man talking also, may also have been Chinese 1524UT

1575 man talking, SE Asian language?? 1422UT

1593 man talking 1520UT sounded Chinese, but no parallels

Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter)

621 639 702 729 738 837 864 891 918 1242 1386 1458 seemed to be Asian;
612 1017 seemed to be DU

best wishes,

Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada

Will probably go there in August. Our daughter lives in Kapaa. But will enjoy reading all the reports.
Martin

> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:40:46 -0800 (PST)
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> Looking for a dream location in the forward Pacific with the chance to track down MW stations from Africa and the Middle East-- in addition to the entire continent of Asia? Consider joining the November 1-7 ocean beach DXpedition at Poipu Kai on Hawaii's Kauai Island-- the closest of the main Hawaiian islands to Asia. This point features an unobstructed salt water path to Asia and the South Pacific, as well as to North and South America.