Radio St. Helena 11092.5 USB heard here at 1800 sign on. Very, very weak.
Surprised to hear them as they are beaming due south to New Zealand.

Currently using the Drake R8 and 200' W-E wire.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:
Radio St. Helena 11092.5 USB heard here at 1800 sign on. Very, very weak.
Surprised to hear them as they are beaming due south to New Zealand.

Currently using the Drake R8 and 200' W-E wire.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I'm hoping that's a sign that they will come in like gangbusters for the
North American transmission. I've heard nothing yet and the transmission
to Japan would have been one of my better chances.

JB

John Barnard wrote:

dxAce wrote:
Radio St. Helena 11092.5 USB heard here at 1800 sign on. Very, very weak.
Surprised to hear them as they are beaming due south to New Zealand.

Currently using the Drake R8 and 200' W-E wire.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I'm hoping that's a sign that they will come in like gangbusters for the
North American transmission. I've heard nothing yet and the transmission
to Japan would have been one of my better chances.

How so? The path doesn't even come close to North America. The long path comes
back to St. Helena through South America.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Weak but totally readable here in Tucson at 22:03 UTC. Mentioning
reports from listeners, mostly from Europe. R70 and R-5000 with 30M
Windom.

Frank
K3YAZ

dxAce wrote:
John Barnard wrote:

dxAce wrote:
Radio St. Helena 11092.5 USB heard here at 1800 sign on. Very, very weak.
Surprised to hear them as they are beaming due south to New Zealand.

Currently using the Drake R8 and 200' W-E wire.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I'm hoping that's a sign that they will come in like gangbusters for the
North American transmission. I've heard nothing yet and the transmission
to Japan would have been one of my better chances.

How so? The path doesn't even come close to North America. The long path comes
back to St. Helena through South America.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

In southeast Texas, I heard them better at 2002-2208 than the North
American beam at 2330.

A lower frequency might have been better for an all-dark path at the
bottom of the sunspot cycle.

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Registered Monitor BR549
The Shack on the Bayou- http://www.ghg.net/cliffwatts/

Drake R8, Sony ICF-SW100, Heathkit GR-64 (retired)
Realistic Pro-2006, Bearcat BC-245XLT

wrote:

In southeast Texas, I heard them better at 2002-2208 than the North
American beam at 2330.

A lower frequency might have been better for an all-dark path at the
bottom of the sunspot cycle.

I'm hearing them about the same. Must be the side-lobes of the antenna and that
they are beaming about 345 degrees now.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On 4 Nov 2006 16:00:59 -0800, wrote:

In southeast Texas, I heard them better at 2002-2208 than the North
American beam at 2330.

A lower frequency might have been better for an all-dark path at the
bottom of the sunspot cycle.

In central Pennsylvania with an indoor wire antenna, I heard nothing
during the European segment and nothing intelligible during the North
American segment. I had a high noise floor; I don't know whether it
was local or atmospheric because I haven't been doing much listening
lately.

During the last broadcast, I had a much stronger signal with a similar
setup, intelligible and at times loud for at least half the broadcast.

dxAce wrote:

John Barnard wrote:

dxAce wrote:
Radio St. Helena 11092.5 USB heard here at 1800 sign on. Very, very weak.
Surprised to hear them as they are beaming due south to New Zealand.

Currently using the Drake R8 and 200' W-E wire.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


I'm hoping that's a sign that they will come in like gangbusters for the
North American transmission. I've heard nothing yet and the transmission
to Japan would have been one of my better chances.

How so? The path doesn't even come close to North America. The long path comes
back to St. Helena through South America.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



Quite true but that should be used more as a guideline as some people I
know north-east of Edmonton did hear the RSH broadcast directed to
Japan. I did say better but not my best chance. In theory, the broadcast
to North America should have been my best shot but it wasn't; my best
reception was with the transmission directed towards Europe.

JB

Quite true but that should be used more as a guideline as some people I
know north-east of Edmonton did hear the RSH broadcast directed to
Japan. I did say better but not my best chance. In theory, the broadcast
to North America should have been my best shot but it wasn't; my best
reception was with the transmission directed towards Europe.

JB

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very good reception here in south of france during transmission towards
europe
with nrd 545 and 2x 6,25 m dipole
73 to every body

Well - just sent off that reception report, airmail, with 3 IRCs and a
donation - we'll see what happens. The RSH website (Radio News, Nov.
3) suggests that the last mail delivery to or from the island before
Christmas is on November 8 by ship that also serves Ascencion out of
Capetown, so it might even take awhile to get there, let alone process
down the road. Patience, patience...

By chance, one of my good friends is on a cruise that takes him to
Jamestown right aorund now - so I e-mailed him and suggested he check
out the place, stop in and say howdy...

Bruce Jensen