Paul, If you would like long range DXing success across thousands of miles of ocean, the first step is to understand long range propagation. 1) On Tasmania, you should try to set up on an ocean beach

From October 14-17 a special salt water DXpedition was conducted at the Rockwork 2 ocean cliff near Manzanita, Oregon, primarily to investigate whether the plunging cliff could provide enhancement of

About 85 years ago the decision was made to blast an ocean coast route on the side of a towering mountain right on the Oregon coast, in order to allow Highway 101 motorists to stay close to the ocean

Thanks Michael, Sudipta, Craig, aa, Jay, Max and Paul, Your comments are all very much appreciated! This dual FSL nulling procedure has been tested over and over with many pest stations, and works ver

Thanks Craig, That's true about one DXer's pest was nulled to receive another DXer's pest, but my pest is a 50 kW Mega Pest, while yours is only a 5 kW mini pest! Gary

After many dual FSL antenna experiments I've finally determined how to effectively cancel out QRM from a local pest that is off to the side (90 degrees different) from a weak DX station, although I'm

Thanks to all who have provided their opinion on the choice of 1 kHz DSP audio between the CC Skywave and XHDATA D-808 portables. Because the "voting" was done in two different Group.io sites (IRCA an

Thanks Dave and Jim for your comments, So now the "score" is 3 to 1 for the Skywave, after adding the preferences of Steve R. and myself (who had kept silent until now). My own comments to Steve were:

For those who have ever wondered what the difference is between the narrowest (1 kHz) DSP audio on the basic (non-SSB) C. Crane Skywave and the XHDATA D-808 during all out TP-DXing, here is your chanc

Hi Gregory, Your question is very similar to one by J.P. Tuttle on July 29th, concerning the currently approved Ultralight Radio models. Of course there have been many new pocket radios introduced sin

Hi Mike, <<< A couple more ideas for experiments. Maybe you or somebody else tried these already? 1. Place the rods "in series", creating an arbitrary long stick. Say, 4x140mm=560mm. 2. Leave spaces b

<<< I listened to that recording multiple times and the signal is to low down for my ears. I was able to pick out a couple of words but unfortunately no clue as to who it was or an id. I heard 4KZ in

Hi Chris, Thanks very much for listening to the two mystery recordings from the Rockwork DXpedition. Usually on the "Kiwi Cliff" we get a mix of 531-PI and 531-More FM, so the 531 Australian station f

These two 531 kHz recordings were made during the Rockwork ocean cliff DXpedition on the Oregon coast last month, and both feature an Australian call-in talk station alone on the frequency. I'm pretty

Hi Joe (and Steve), Thanks for posting the link about the 3.125" x .39" ferrite rods for sale from Electronic Goldmine. They sound interesting, but in comparison to the Russian surplus ferrite rods (s

Tom Rothlisberger and I had the thrill of conducting the tenth annual Rockwork Cliff DXpedition this month, and once again lucked out with some exceptional South Pacific signals, especially on Longwav

If anyone ever wondered why a DXer would want to set up on the side of a plunging ocean cliff at 0500 local time and go all-out to track down "impossible" transoceanic DX on "hopelessly" humble gear,

Take a break from the wacky Pandemic and escape with Tom Rothlisberger and me to a wild, plunging cliff on the Oregon coast-- 500 feet (150m) straight down to the Pacific. Shot right in the middle of

Australian stations kicked into high gear at the plunging Rockwork cliff this morning as 558-6WA in Wagin, Western Australia managed a pretty decent signal on a new-design 8 inch (20cm) FSL antennas (

Hi J.P. (and Max), During the worldwide Ultralight Radio Boom in early 2008 we had a very dedicated group of volunteers to handle administration, a classification and awards program, numerous Ultralig