John,

One of my most thrilling DX catches was one that lasted through most of
the night and into the early morning hours...

I had just come home from work and as I normally do, I turned on the R
71-A; as I was turning the dial in the 5 meg band I caught a Boeing 747
[heavy] departing Washington State {USA} discussing his flight plan to
someone over the air. As it turned out, this pilot was on a test flight
heading towards Rio! I followed him until I just could not keep my eyes
open. It was a fun voyage for me, that's for sure!

The longest DX I ever caught was a U.P.S. flight leaving Stockholm,
Sweden, heading home to the U.S.A. That too was a lot of fun to monitor.

Both were accomplished with a 100' long copper wire antenna wrapped
around the ceiling of my apartment, until I ran our of wire!

How about you, what's your best catch?

Alain...San Diego

John Plimmer wrote:
8942 is also a great frequency. One evening I was sitting with a fellow DXer
in his garden overlooking the "Valley of a Thousand Hills", and handed him
my Sony 2010 portable and tuned to 8942. Hong Kong and Manila, some 7,000
miles away came in as clear as a bell working various a/c whilst we were
quaffing lager during sundowner time (happy hour). Very thrilling!!

I have a lovely tape recording of a SAA flight all the way from Taiwan to
Johannesburg"s Jan Smuts airport working those frequencies, with touch down
on VHF.
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John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
South 33 d 47 m 540 s, East 20 d 07 m 541 s.
RX Drake R8B, SW8
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
Hallicrafters SX-100, Eddystone 940
GE circa 50's radiogram
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop

"A.Pismo Clam" wrote in message
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Hi John,

Yes, I know exactly what you mean about the "thrill" of receiving a
distant station. I used to do a lot of DXing of the areo bands. I
remember the first time that I heard Vietnam on 8.942 MHz! Some of the
South American countries as well, were great catches.

Alain...San Diego




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