That's interesting Bruce. I'm a BC DXer and just got back from a week at
Quoddy House -- last private residence before the West Quoddy Head lighthouse.
Lots of room for antennas and at the moment I'm working with Neil Kazaross on
testing some of his EZNEC designs:
<http://realmonitor.com/QH3/DKAZ_2_sizes.pdf>
While at Quoddy House I had, at one time or another, 3 DKAZ antennas up -- one
pointing 330 deg, one at 155 and 'the workhorse' at 60 deg.
Lots of TAs, some LatAms of interest and even a few TPs -- Japan-774, Korea-972
and China-1593.
Interesting thing is that all the TPs came in much better on the 60 deg antenna
than the 330 degree one!
This morning, after I got back home to Alexandria, VA I got the
first-of-the-season 'trace' [waterfall mode on a Perseus receiver in 'reverse
x-ray' mode] of a TP carrier on 972 ... and that too was using the TA beam of a
4-element Wellbrook phased delta array rather than the 'usual' place I find TPs
-- facing North.
Interesting propagation.
BTW, on the way to Quoddy House - down South Lubec Road off of Hwy 189 - there
is a pretty impressive antenna farm -- a few 100' towers and lots of HF yagis.
Anybody know who this might be? Be nice to talk to another radio person on
those lonely, short winter afternoons 'down east.'
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On Dec 9, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Bruce wrote:
>
> Could hear a SM station calling CQ. A good signal, but he was coming in from
> the NW to mid coast Maine. Very unusual.... Thanks for the sola wind update.
> 73
> Bruce
>
>
>> On 12/9/2012 6:14 AM, Arthur Delibert wrote:
>>> Interesting to see this report. A few years ago, OH2BO wrote on this
>>> reflector that for DX signals traveling through the polar regions, he
>>> watches the solar wind, and expects very good conditions when the solar
>>> wind speed is below 300 km/sec and the solar wind pressure is less than 0.5
>>> nPa -- which is exactly what happened in the latter part of last week.
>>> Solar wind data is available here: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/
>>> Regards,Art DelibertKB3FJO > From: tree@kkn.net
>> This is really interesting, as last evening was the first time this year
>> that I have heard Europe on 160 at my SS. G6PZ was really loud.
>>
>> 73,
>> Mike, W5UC
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