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dxAce wrote:

John Plimmer wrote:

SEA GAIN is indeed a very interesting phenomena. A group of MW
DXer's throughout the world have been researching this and
confirmed the very beneficial results obtained when DXing by or
near the sea. A couple of the fella's unearthed research done by
the BBC over forty years ago when they were researching the best
siting of MW transmitters. This was the definitive paper that
confirmed the existence of "sea gain" on the MW band.

I did a sea gain experiment with my Drake SW8 at Veldrif in 2005.
Using a reference station of France Info, Nice on 1557 I travelled
inland from the beach. By the time I got 10km's/6 miles inland the
signal had dropped off minus -23dB!

I can confirm after 40 years of DXing in various sites that DXing
by the sea is spectacularly better than the best inland location.
Most of your top American DXer's head for the coast during the DX
season and get amazing catches not possible inland.

It would seem as though some of the "top American DX'ers" are even
resorting these days to travelling to or near their wanted DX target,
hearing said target, and then actually counting that in their totals.
Some are even resorting to using some of the various "DX-tuners"
throughout the world and "hearing" their target via computer.

A travesty.

Yeah, nether would count as DXing. What are these people thinking?

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Telamon
Ventura, California