[NJARC] DX Contest

[Al Klase]

Gang,

I have to agree with Dave, conditions have not bee that great. Here's a 
report from the strong-local-signals zone, here in Jersey City:

Friday and Saturday were pretty poor.  I got distracted, and I'm just 
getting serious tonight.  There's no sign of Caracas on 750, or any of 
the Cubans.  I had heard Cuba's Radio Rebelde parallel on 600 and 670 at 
the DXpedition, but no joy here.

The log so far tonight using the Drake R8B so I can listen to just one 
sideband, and snuggle up to the locals:  (This is with the home-brew loop.)
WHO 1040 Des Moines IA, WSB 750 Atlanta, KXEL 1540 Water Loo IA, WSCR 
670 Chicago, and KMOX 1120 St. Louis.  So things aren't that bad.

Ed, you're a little farther out, but maybe not far enough for 
crystal-set DX.  Here, even with a very good xtal set, I just can't hear 
anything between the local.  You guys a little farther out need to get 
it in gear.

Good DX,
Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 1/21/2016 6:33 PM, David Snellman wrote:
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> Hi all. From my location in Pennsylvania conditions, so far, have ranged from good to very poor.  Sunday evening and Monday were rather good.  Logged some good DX.  Tuesday I didn’t have much chance to play with the radios. When I did conditions were not good at all.  Wednesday evening conditions were really bad - couldn’t even get AM740 to come in.  Did get KXEL in later.
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> To Ed,  WOR comes in fine at my site, but is often overrun by Radio Rebelde from Cuba.  They are running at 200 kW.
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> Dave Snellman
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>> On Jan 21, 2016, at 5:04 PM, E. Suhaka <Chitose6970 at poetworld.net> wrote:
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>> Just remember
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>> I have been listening around with a museum souvenir shop type crystal
>> set that I got at a yard sale for 75 cents.  All I could get is WOR and
>> the foreign language station that is so close to me that I can almost
>> hear them without a radio.
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>> Ed
>> N2COV
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