Re: [IRCA] Daytime DX

[Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>]

At West Dennis Beach about 2 miles south of here, I could routinely get 
Turks and Caicos 530 all day before its tower came down in a hurricane. 
Distance: 1400 miles.

Second farthest groundwave is WOKV 690 Jacksonville, FL at 1100 miles.  
At the West Dennis site it mixes with WADS-CT with my cardioid antenna 
null pointed north to take out co-channel CKGM-QC and slop-over from 
680 WRKO-MA.

Iceland longwave (189 kHz) just about makes it to the eastern side of 
Cape Cod around Orleans and Eastham on about a 2000 mile groundwave 
haul.

Early skip around here can include Saudi Arabia 1521 around 1 p.m. 
local EST in late autumn / early winter (>5000 miles).

On DXpeditions to Newfoundland, the crew could get midday groundwaves 
from as far west as NYC, as far south as Bermuda, and as far east as 
Azores - all about 1100-1300 miles.  On late autumn DXpeditions, the 
former blaster from Norway on 1314 could be heard all day via skip: 
about 2200 miles for that one.

Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA

<<
It really depends on the time of year, Les.  Daytime cx will always be 
enhanced
during the winter, especially if really cold temps and/or a good bit of 
snow
cover is involved.  At this location, my most distant regular daytime 
catch, at
450 miles, is KFYR-550 in Bismarck, ND, which I can get when I null out 
KFRM in
Salina, KS.  That's one I can count on 365 days a year.  During the 
winter, it's
not been uncommon for me to get Oklahoma City on 1520 in the middle of 
the day.
My best daytime catch, however, was made on my parents' southwest Iowa 
farm,
which is about 20 miles due east of my current location.  That happened 
on Jan.
29, 1990, in the form of KKOB-770 in Albuquerque, roughly 750 miles 
away and
heard at high noon Central Time.  And what made it all the more special 
is that
I was able to get a QSL for that reception.  :)  73,Rick DauSouth 
Omaha,
Nebraska

> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:46:28 -0600
> From: les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: am@xxxxxxxxxxx; irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [IRCA] Daytime DX
>
> Today was a good day for daytime DX, with a nice mix of stations from
> Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee coming in. I remember
> hearing a station in Kentucky one mid-day morning, and being pretty
> proud of that catch.
>
> I'm curious what others have managed to log during the daytime hours?
> Best catch? Tips and/or equipment advice for daytime DXing? My noise
> levels here in suburbia are actually lower in the daytime than at 
night
> unless I want to stay up well past midnight.
>
> --
> 73,
>
>
> Les Rayburn, N1LF
> Maylene, AL
> EM63
>
> Member NRC, IRCA, & Medium Wave DX Circle
> Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA
>
> Perseus SDR, SDR-IQ,Funcube Pro, Wellbrooke ALA-1530+ loop, LF
> Engineering Active Whips,
> Quantum Phaser, Kiwa Loop, Palstar MW Pre-Selector
> >


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