Topband: Fw: Not so Boring report

[Bill Whitacre]

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 at 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