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Old September 3rd 08, 03:15 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Count Floyd[_2_] Count Floyd[_2_] is offline
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Default Hurricanes bring good DX
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:00:29 UTC, wrote:

On Sep 3, 5:30ÿam, "Count Floyd"
wrote:
I am in Hobe Sound Florida, one mile from the ocean, and for some
strange reason, MW DX is coming in from the Caribbean, last night I
picked up WDHP, US Virgin Islands and other other antilles. ÿI guess
that is the only good thing about these damned hurricanes!
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That's about 1200 miles from you Bob = nice catch and well done.
I can sometimes get it from our Seefontein DX site on my Kiwa loop and
the Icom. WDHP is 10 Kw day and 1 Kw night time power.

What time did you get it in UTC/zulu?
And what radio and antenna were you using?
John,
I was up in the wee small hours, around 2am EDT, using a 40 foot wire
and my old Hammarlund HQ-145XC. I also checked the frequency to make
sure I was right by using the AMLOG but it was booming in with station
ID on the Hammarlund. Gotta love those old boatanchors!
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