[IRCA] Oregon Cliff Ultralight DU's for 8-20

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,

Thanks to Dennis for his DU report this morning-- a very interesting 
comparison. After scouting out all of the sheer ocean side cliffs on 
Highway 101 south of Cannon Beach (OR) I was finally able to choose my 
dream DXing venue just south of the border between Clatsop and 
Tillamook Counties-- a Highwy 101 roadside turnoff blasted out of a 
cliff with a nearly a 90 degree angle to the ocean below. My own name 
for this spot is "Rockwork 4," which is the third turnoff south of the 
large "Rockwork" turnoff overlooking the Pacific at the northern edge 
of the Oswalt West State Park (where I set up a year ago with FSL's and 
Ultralights).

The DU-DXing results this early morning proved that this site is at 
least the propagation equal of Cape Perpetua last month, which provided 
some legendary New Zealand propagation. Around 1245 UTC some monster 
Kiwi signals began to roll in on the 8" FSL and hot-rodded PL-380 
Ultralight, with 531-PI coming close to pegging the S/N at 25, while 
both the low-powered 594-NZ Rhema network and 603-Radio Waatea actually 
did peg it at 25. Wild New Zealand propagation continued until about 
1315, when they tamed down a little and some Aussie big guns started to 
boom in. 576-RN hit the 25 S/N level with jazz music around 1325, and 
774-3LO also came close to doing so. I was lucky to confirm an 828-3GI 
parallel with 774-3LO around this time, and both 1116 and 1503 were 
producing good audio. Unfortunately the Aussie X-banders never seemed 
to get out of the gate this morning, and the only semi-exotic DU to 
produce good audio was apparently 558-Radio Fiji One (playing 
island-type music, but no longer with any // frequency to confirm 
identity).

Longwave DXing results were equally wild at this 400 foot + cliff site, 
with the aeronautical beacon 238-KT in northern New Zealand producing a 
very vibrant signal around 1230 UTC to break the Ultralight NDB-DXing 
distance record. Four Alaskan TWEB beacons were maxing out the S/N 
display at 25 this early morning (209-CYT, 251-OSE, 385-OCC and 
394-RWO), as were 153 and 279-Radio Rossii.180-Rossii and 189-Rossii 
were fair, and 234-Rossii was poor. All in all, a very exciting 
morning-- and with four more days of this, the new FSL's should really 
get a thorough workout.

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Cannon Beach, OR)


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