Guy Atkins wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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It'll get much better as we head towards Fall and Winter.

PNG and Indo reception from the Pacific NW is usually best from mid-summer,
and then declines as winter approaches. This seems to be the pattern year
after year for some reason. My best reception of long-gone Radio Enga 2410
kHz has always been in the summer, for instance.

It could be that the 'sweet spot' here an hour or so after (and before) sunrise
works out better for me in the winter than it might for you as the PNG's
generally s/off at least by 1300 which would be well before your sunrise in
winter?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Quite correct, dxAce. Typical 1300 UTC s/off of the PNGs is over 2-1/2 hours
prior to our sunrise around December 1st. This is far from any local sunrise
enhancement.

We'll sometimes see a brief sunset-at-the-transmitter enhancement, though,
around 0830 UTC. In the summer, with a West Beverage antenna at the coast,
we'll get hets or weak audio from the PNGs starting up as early as 0715 when
conditions are good.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
www.sdr-1000.blogspot.com


"dxAce" wrote in message
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It could be that the 'sweet spot' here an hour or so after (and before)
sunrise
works out better for me in the winter than it might for you as the PNG's
generally s/off at least by 1300 which would be well before your sunrise
in
winter?

Guy Atkins wrote:

Quite correct, dxAce. Typical 1300 UTC s/off of the PNGs is over 2-1/2 hours
prior to our sunrise around December 1st. This is far from any local sunrise
enhancement.

We'll sometimes see a brief sunset-at-the-transmitter enhancement, though,
around 0830 UTC. In the summer, with a West Beverage antenna at the coast,
we'll get hets or weak audio from the PNGs starting up as early as 0715 when
conditions are good.

Yes, I'm glad you mentioned that sunset-at-the-transmitter enhancement which can
be quite interesting! I haven't stayed up that late nor have I gotten up that
early in quite a while. Fun to park on the frequency and hear them rise right
out of the muck for a bit then fade away again.

Wish I still had all my issues of 'Proceedings' so I could peruse all the great
propagation articles again!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I did a www.devilfinder.com search for, Proceedings

Looks like it is a U.S.Navy Magazine.Maybe the older issues are archived
there somewhere.
cuhulin

He was referring to the "Proceedings of Fine Tuning", a series of annual &
bi-annual books for the intermediate to advanced DX/SWL enthusiast. It was
named "Proceedings" as it was patterned after the academic publications of
universities, technical societies, etc.

I was one of the editors of Proceedings from 1989-1996, but sadly Fine
Tuning's DX newsletter is no longer. Proceedings specialized in very
in-depth reviews and articles, written by expert DX hobby volunteers. The
articles were much longer and more detailed than the typical monthly hobby
bulletin piece. The Proceedings effort began in 1998 under the direction of
top-notch DXer John Bryant.

We arranged with the NASWA and ODXA clubs to offer article reprints from
Proceedings, but only ODXA continues to offer the entire collection of
articles. Check out their reprint list at http://www.odxa.on.ca/reprints.pdf

We've talked about offering the entire series of Proceedings books on a
CDROM sometime.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA
www.sdr-1000.blogspot.com


wrote in message
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I did a www.devilfinder.com search for, Proceedings

Looks like it is a U.S.Navy Magazine.Maybe the older issues are archived
there somewhere.
cuhulin