In article ,
"John Plimmer" wrote:

My DX pal, Gary Deacon has just caught KSL Salt Lake City on 1160 khz using
his ancient (unmodified) rusted and salt encrusted Yaesu FRG-7 and his
ALA1530 which sits hanging unmounted on his cupboard door. Salt Lake City is
9,700 miles from his suburban home in Fishoek, a small coastal resort near
the main city of Cape Town. The catches he gets from home attests to the
remarkable "sea gain" experienced on the MW band when you DX from the beach
(or near it).

He did get a better catch than that at our September equinox DXpedition when
he caught CASH in Tecate Mexico, right next door to San Diego CA. That was
at the Seefontein DX cottage right on the beach of the Atlantic ocean, also
using his Frog but then with a 1,300 foot beverage antenna over the shoulder
to New York.

Motto of the story is that you don't have to have the world's latest whizz
bang radio to get those amazing DX catches, but as Conrad Hilton said, it's
all about position, position position!

More info on Gary's activities at Fishoek and our Seefontein DX site can be
found at
http://www.dxing.info

"Sea gain"? Sounds interesting - please explain. Once while
vacationing on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, Anna Maria Island,
Florida, I was pulling in all kinds of DX at night on the 20 meter ham
band on my Radio Shack DX-440 portable - much more than I ever did at
home (inland).

Greg

My explanation of Sea gain.(keep in mind,I am always right) OK,if you
live on the East Coast of U.S.A.There isn't a lot of crap to prevent
your radio from picking up Europe at night time.When I was toolin down
the A1A in Florida one night,I picked up an Irish AM radio station on my
van's radio in Ireland.
cuhulin

wrote:

My explanation of Sea gain.(keep in mind,I am always right) OK,if you
live on the East Coast of U.S.A.There isn't a lot of crap to prevent
your radio from picking up Europe at night time.When I was toolin down
the A1A in Florida one night,I picked up an Irish AM radio station on my
van's radio in Ireland.
cuhulin



How could you hear the radio if it was in Ireland?



mike

It was night time and the Irish Radio Station knew I had to hear those
Uilleann Pipes playing.

Is everybody in Canada just like you? Pray for their souls.
cuhulin

wrote:

It was night time and the Irish Radio Station knew I had to hear those
Uilleann Pipes playing.

Is everybody in Canada just like you? Pray for their souls.




YOU said the van's radio was in Ireland. How could you possibly hear it
all the over in Florida? Re read your posting:


=======================
When I was toolin down
the A1A in Florida one night,I picked up an Irish AM radio station on my
van's radio in Ireland.
=======================

Care to explain how your van's radio got to Ireland? Didn't you see it
missing? Perhaps you mailed it there in a drunken stupor....


mike

"m II" wrote in message news:OUlWg.7543$H7.5506@edtnps82...
wrote:

It was night time and the Irish Radio Station knew I had to hear those
Uilleann Pipes playing.

Is everybody in Canada just like you? Pray for their souls.




YOU said the van's radio was in Ireland. How could you possibly hear it
all the over in Florida? Re read your posting:


=======================
When I was toolin down
the A1A in Florida one night,I picked up an Irish AM radio station on my
van's radio in Ireland.
=======================

Care to explain how your van's radio got to Ireland? Didn't you see it
missing? Perhaps you mailed it there in a drunken stupor....


mike

"mailed it"... by Eire mail ??
BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHaha.
k35454. (yes, I
know I'm brilliant ).

k35454 wrote:
"m II" wrote in message news:OUlWg.7543$H7.5506@edtnps82...
wrote:

It was night time and the Irish Radio Station knew I had to hear those
Uilleann Pipes playing.

Is everybody in Canada just like you? Pray for their souls.




YOU said the van's radio was in Ireland. How could you possibly hear it
all the over in Florida? Re read your posting:


=======================
When I was toolin down
the A1A in Florida one night,I picked up an Irish AM radio station on my
van's radio in Ireland.
=======================

Care to explain how your van's radio got to Ireland? Didn't you see it
missing? Perhaps you mailed it there in a drunken stupor....


mike

"mailed it"... by Eire mail ??
BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHaha.
k35454. (yes, I
know I'm brilliant ).


ummmm....yes....brilliant...cough cough...

the radio must have been flying as high as cuhulin on a Friday night. I
understand the dog hides every time he hears the whiskey bottle open.
Needless to say, the poor thing spends a lot of time under the couch.
That is why it's called Blueberry's couch.




mike

My van's Radio is in the dashboard of my van.My van and I were toolin
down the A1A in Florida,by the Atlantic Ocean.
Don't try your Canadian mealy mouth yap crap putting words in my
mouth.YOU WILL LOSE Every Time.
cuhulin

wrote in
:

My van's Radio is in the dashboard of my van.My van and I were toolin
down the A1A in Florida,by the Atlantic Ocean.
Don't try your Canadian mealy mouth yap crap putting words in my
mouth.YOU WILL LOSE Every Time.
cuhulin


Cuhu

Don't worry about anything them dumb ass liberals north of the border like
to hee haw about. They don't understand things like propagation. They're
more likely right at home talking and listening to a fence post.

SC

Maryknoll is in Ireland.I was picking up a Radio Station in
Maryknoll,Ireland.My van and my van's Radio were in Florida.
I own a half acre of land in Interlachen,Florida,Putnam County.Come on
now,Canadian,tell me Interlachen is in Switzerland.Let's see what you
don't know.
cuhulin