@BBN.COM:benk@inmet (02/21/90)
Since several people seem to be interested in the receiving equipment
I was using when I stumbled upon an afternon's worth of good African DX
on 14 February 1990, here it is for the record:
1. Receiver: Sony ICF-2010
2. Antenna: 75-foot indoor longwire
The antenna was coupled to the receiver via an MFJ-16010 antenna tuner.
So, my setup was hardly "bare bones", but it wasn't a JRC NRD-525 coupled
to a 2000-foot Beverage antenna oriented towards Central Africa either!
Good DXing *is* possible with a mid-priced rig and antenna!
-- Ben Krepp
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From DDN: benk@inmet.inmet.comKrishnan Yegnashankaran <news@oracle.uucp> (02/21/90)
In article <494@althea.UUCP> eddjp@althea.UUCP (Dewey Paciaffi) writes: >In article <83600030@inmet> benk@inmet.inmet.com writes: >> >> >> While doing a casual scan of the low-end of the 60 meter band yesterday >>(14 February) at about 2220 UTC I noticed that ELWA from Monrovia, Liberia on >>4760 kHz was coming in "like gangbusters". A check of the rest of 60 meters > >It may have been good general conditions around that date. Checking my log >I noticed I received > > Radio Tahiti 15170.8 0413UTC Feb. 14 > All India Radio 11620 1406UTC Feb. 17 > I have been able to monitor Radio Tahiti both on 15170.8 and 11825.4 most evenings for the last two weeks. The signal wandered a few hertz but has been exceptionally strong. As far as the 60m band is concerned, I have been able to log Radio Suid Africa on 4810, 4880 and 3215 kHz. What I thought was Port Moresby, Papua NG on 4890.1 kHz, I think was Radio France International relayed from Gabon. All of this on the West Coast in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a Kenwood R5000. Re All India Radio. All winter long they had been really strong on 11830 kHz from 0130-0230 UTC. They seem to have completely disappeared from here these days. But strangely enough I have been able to log it on 7260 kHz at 0130 UTC buried under all the ham chatter! Something that I have never been able to do before. On 17805 kHz from 0315-0430 AIR beamed to Africa has been much clearer than ever before. The mysteries of propagation presumably hits again. Krishnan Yegnashankaran. =============================================================================== "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -Lewis Carroll Krishnan Yegnashankaran. kyegnash@dvlseq.oracle.com