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jim_kr1s <jkearman@...>
Conditions improved quite a bit yesterday, but location played a role. On ABDX, Chris Black on Cape Cod reported hearing no TAs on his software-defined radio (it records the entire band for later review) last night. There weren't many here, but I could hear R Farda more than two hours after their sunrise! Farda is almost due east of here; paths even slightly farther north were weaker.
My night got underway by looking for WDHP in the U.S. Virgin Islands. When Carl reported that one, I remembered I'd never logged it with a ULR! An easy catch from here, DJ Luis playing reggae at my sunset, for ULR country #24. Motivation! Had another goal last night, a new state, which didn't work out, thanks to my Cuban friends, in Cuba and Miami, who owned 1020 kHz. KDKA, about 940 miles due north, barely made it through, which is interesting in light of later observations. Decided to stay up for European sunrise and try for country #25. The only close-by (relatively) TA countries I haven't logged are Spain and Mauritania. Chris Knight and I have heard Mauritania (783 kHz) on both Melbourne DXpeditions, when we were about a mile from the ocean, about 8 pm Eastern time. I need to check then, because they aren't even faintly audible later. A quick check across Spain's strongest MW channels turned up nothing except a heterodyne on 1359, where there's a station in Madrid. While I was recording there, the battery in my recorder went flat. About 2/3 of the way through replacing it, up popped WMOB in Mobile, AL with a clear ID. I managed to record ". . . 13-60 on your AM dial," followed by Gospel music. They're supposed to be 212 W at night, and the antenna wasn't pointed that way, so this was a nice little catch, for ULR #411. Dates/Times UTC, PL-380 + Hoop Loop , 360 miles north of Havana.
I don't often see good E-W paths without also having good N-W propagation. Although the source of recent geomagnetic disturbances was tapering off, higher latitudes were still affected. The Canadian geomagnetism observatories still show moderate high-latitude disturbances. By now it should be obvious that I'm into this propagation stuff, so I'll be scanning the band with great interest tonight. And I'm going to put a fresh battery in that $%#&! recorder, too! 73, Jim, KR1S http://kr1s.kearman.com/ |
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Carl DeWhitt
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Congrats on WDHP ! I have heard it in N.C. and S.C. but not here yet.So it is one i need to try for here. 73 Carl DeWhitt Maryville ,Tn. --- In ultralightdx@..., "jim_kr1s" <jkearman@...> wrote:
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