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Radio St. Helena Day!
dxAce wrote:
2000, "Over The Ocean Waves"..... 11092.5 USB Great Signal! Enjoy! dxAce Michigan USA I can hear speech, but I can't make out the words. |
Radio St. Helena Day!
Female vocals, with orchestra. Much QRN. 34.4, -118.4 Ten-Tec 516 Argonaut V, Half Sloper. 2306z |
Radio St. Helena Day!
wrote in message ... On Nov 15, 3:22 pm, "Abb N" wrote: All I got was static on both my Sat-800 and E5 here near Detroit Mi. Mind you the weather here is pretty crappy as well - very wet and cold :( Abb N Best reception here in many years, but not enough for a repectable reception report. Could occasionally detect voice or music, but most was not intelligible. Clearly heard the start of an ID "Radio Saint...." around 2320. Actually, the best reception was a few seconds around 2228 when they were supposed to be aimed to Europe. The last few years, could not even get this much. QTH is San Jose, California. Receiver is a Drake R-8. Antenna is a sloping long wire about 10m long and oriented roughly to the south. Sunspots will increase under Obama, so better reception is expected in the coming years. Oddly enough, about an hour or so later when I turned on the Sat-800 again , oddly, reception had gotten great even though the weather hadn't changed!! Reception here just *had* to be bad for the St. Helena broadcast didn't it grumble grumble Abb N |
Radio St. Helena Day!
Abb N wrote: wrote in message ... On Nov 15, 3:22 pm, "Abb N" wrote: All I got was static on both my Sat-800 and E5 here near Detroit Mi. Mind you the weather here is pretty crappy as well - very wet and cold :( Abb N Best reception here in many years, but not enough for a repectable reception report. Could occasionally detect voice or music, but most was not intelligible. Clearly heard the start of an ID "Radio Saint...." around 2320. Actually, the best reception was a few seconds around 2228 when they were supposed to be aimed to Europe. The last few years, could not even get this much. QTH is San Jose, California. Receiver is a Drake R-8. Antenna is a sloping long wire about 10m long and oriented roughly to the south. Sunspots will increase under Obama, so better reception is expected in the coming years. Oddly enough, about an hour or so later when I turned on the Sat-800 again , oddly, reception had gotten great even though the weather hadn't changed!! Why would your weather have anything to do with SW reception? (Other than T-storm interference) |
Radio St. Helena Day!
dxAce wrote:
Drifter wrote: dxAce wrote: Now mentioning changing the beam, and saying good bye to Japan... dxAce wrote: 2000, "Over The Ocean Waves"..... 11092.5 USB Great Signal! Enjoy! dxAce Michigan USA they moved the beam and dropped out here. i'm getting a swishing type noise here. the storms are slowly moving away. i need some of that magic you use out there Ace. Sandy soil? Morning Ace. I have seen you scores on NASWA. you got a little something extra going for you out there. could be magic, good receivers, good antennas, etc. you make the rest of us look like beginners. Drifter... |
Radio St. Helena Day!
Drifter wrote: dxAce wrote: Drifter wrote: dxAce wrote: Now mentioning changing the beam, and saying good bye to Japan... dxAce wrote: 2000, "Over The Ocean Waves"..... 11092.5 USB Great Signal! Enjoy! dxAce Michigan USA they moved the beam and dropped out here. i'm getting a swishing type noise here. the storms are slowly moving away. i need some of that magic you use out there Ace. Sandy soil? Morning Ace. I have seen you scores on NASWA. you got a little something extra going for you out there. could be magic, good receivers, good antennas, etc. you make the rest of us look like beginners. A fairly quiet location, and I think the transformer matched wires work well too. Always remember, everyone is starts as a beginner, and when something new and exotic comes on we all go back to square one to hear it. But hey, thanks for the happy thoughts! |
Radio St. Helena Day!
Hi,
For some reason when the weather here in Windsor/Detroit is crappy, reception for the most part seems to suck. We had heavy rain, lots of wind and for a while t-storms. The t-storms were occurring during the St. Helena broadcast :( Oddly enough, about an hour or so later when I turned on the Sat-800 again , oddly, reception had gotten great even though the weather hadn't changed!! Why would your weather have anything to do with SW reception? (Other than T-storm interference) |
Radio St. Helena Day!
On Nov 15, 10:17*pm, wrote:
On Nov 15, 10:01*pm, dxAce wrote: 2000, "Over The Ocean Waves"..... 11092.5 USB Great Signal! Enjoy! dxAce Michigan USA 2000z time pips clear then signature tune 2002z welcoming speech starts with fair reception 2003z - they must have swung the beam as reception becomes very weak and unreadable. Sadly their schedule doesn't beam South to me = pity John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa South 33 d 47 m 32 s, East 20 d 07 m 32 s Icom IC-7700, Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods ERGO software Drake SW8. Sangean 803A Sony 7600D, GE SRIII, Redsun RP2100 Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro Mk II, Datong AD-270 Kiwa MW Loop.http://www.dxing.info/about/dxers/plimmer.dx For those of you unable to hear it like me, Guy Atkins has posted a nice audio clip of his reception on the West Coast http://www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com/ JP |
Radio St. Helena Day!
Abb N wrote:
Hi, For some reason when the weather here in Windsor/Detroit is crappy, reception for the most part seems to suck. We had heavy rain, lots of wind and for a while t-storms. The t-storms were occurring during the St. Helena broadcast :( Oddly enough, about an hour or so later when I turned on the Sat-800 again , oddly, reception had gotten great even though the weather hadn't changed!! Why would your weather have anything to do with SW reception? (Other than T-storm interference) Wet power lines. |
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