Too bad I didn't read this last night s. I got up 04:00 PST and turned on
the dx394 - I might just as well have gone back to bed, Very noisy and the
signal kept surging and disappearing over all bands. This morning 05:27 PST
I have a chinese language broadcast on 7.415 which I am guessing is R. Free
Asia via Tajikistan LOL - Passport shows nothing at in the 13:00 block.

Antenna is 3 lines of single strand insulated wire 20' high running parallel
in N-S arrangement
and another similar line slung vertically into tall fir tree. Overall length
approximately 240' for horizontal part, and another 50' for the vertical.
Both connected to coax center conductor and sheild grounded to earth;
receiver grounded as well.

"Howard" wrote in message
news
At 0500 UCT WBCQ coming in S4-S9 with a goodly amount of fading and a
LOT of noise, not a 'pleasant listen' at all. In fairness though, the
bands are pretty much wiped out tonight. Equipment is an R-75,
antennas are an inverted L running NE - SW, approx 60 ft horizontal &
25 ft vertical through an ICE-182 and 75ohm RG6 coax feedline, 8 foot
ground rod and an Alpha Delta 40 DX-SWL short sloper (40 ft) running
E-W at 20 ft @ feed point and 8 ft @ endpoint. The sloper has more
noise than the Inverted L, fading about equal and is running about S2
- S5. Location is Los Angeles, CA .... I see a much nicer report from
Ventura, CA which is just a short hop north of LA - though the
population isn't as dense (in more ways than one) as LA. I guess that
much like we have 'micro-climates' we have 'micro-propogation'.

Howard

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:41:35 -0600, "Stinger"
wrote:

WBCQ sounding clear at 10:37PM Central, just north of New Orleans,
RadioLabs
modified Sangean ATS-909, 75-foot random wire.

Program highlight: "Janet Jackson's breast has saved the day."

You know, you just can't make this stuff up.

-- Stinger

"Diverd4777" wrote in message
...
All:

- Little experiment..
- Can you hear 7.415..
- What is the signal like
- What UTC is it..
- Where ARE you
_ And what equpment are you using..

( Possible to calculate height of reflective layer using info ??
Hmmm.. )

( A Bit Bored...On this particular Saturday night;
going to look through the Second Hand Books again..)

at 0:200 7415 a staticy, S3


Dan / NYC; R 75 & 100 foot random Wire