[IRCA] Quoddy House 6 DXpedition - Nov. 15-21, 2015

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

I love reading others' DXpedition reports & loggings.  In that same spirit I offer the following.

From Nov. 15-21 I was at Quoddy House to try my luck at east-coast-style trans-oceanic DX.

While there's still LOTS of wav files to go through, enough is available to get a 'glimpse' of things.

Highlights so far include Ethiopia on 918 and 1359 kHz and Eritrea on 945 kHz. Thanks to the great folks on the RealDX mail list for ID help!

Quoddy House [QH] is near Lubec, Maine:  <https://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.818103,-66.962673&t=h&z=18>

As much as a DX opportunity, a visit to QH is an opportunity to try out new antennas and new configurations of trusted antennas.  Over the past few visits I've gotten an idea of where it's possible and useful to put up antennas.  This year I stuck with what Iâve come to consider my âstockâ weapon - a 160â DKAZ â one at 55 degrees for TAs and one at 155 degrees for LatAm.  I used a Vactrol termination resistance to vary Rt from the shack and then replaced it with a fixed resistor when I had determined the best value.

Here's a chronology of when each antenna was up and in what configuration it was in on which day:  <http://realmonitor.com/qh6/antenna_cron.html>

Instead of a 'traditional' log I put up sound samples of what I heard on a website.  The website for QH6 is here:

<http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_QH6.php>

Besides the sounds [accessed by clicking the âplayâ symbol in the antenna/time/date vs. frequency matrix], other links of interest include:

- stats for what was heard: <http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_stats_qh6.php>

- AzGraph for each antenna to illustrate how it worked: <http://realmonitor.com/phpmygraph_qh6_combo.html>

- a Google Map of what was heard:  <http://realmonitor.com/latlon_qh6/>

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy putting it together.  Stay tuned for more entries to be added over the next few weeks.

Bill Whitacre
Alexandria, VA

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