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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? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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