dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan? I am on the ocean in South
Florida and run a long wire to a Hammarlund HQ-145XC and have yet to
snag any MW European DX. I know that you run high-end Drake
equipment, but any advice would be helpful.
--
"What do you mean there's no movie?"

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

wrote in news:H4nF2fc6WnjP-
pn2-QjTSFuBb0Nh3@localhost:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan? I am on the ocean in South
Florida and run a long wire to a Hammarlund HQ-145XC and have yet to
snag any MW European DX. I know that you run high-end Drake
equipment, but any advice would be helpful.

You are too far south to get that kind of DX, Bet you get other kinds that
would scare the hell out of a Michigan dweller. Oooooohhh, that's scary
kids!

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:05:49 UTC, elaich wrote:

wrote in news:H4nF2fc6WnjP-
pn2-QjTSFuBb0Nh3@localhost:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan? I am on the ocean in South
Florida and run a long wire to a Hammarlund HQ-145XC and have yet to
snag any MW European DX. I know that you run high-end Drake
equipment, but any advice would be helpful.

You are too far south to get that kind of DX, Bet you get other kinds that
would scare the hell out of a Michigan dweller. Oooooohhh, that's scary
kids!
Why would I be too far south for European MW? I am less than one mile
from the Atlantic, and should get good signals, but too damn many 3-D
locals jamming the airwaves!

--
"What do you mean there's no movie?"

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

wrote:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan?

I'm about two and a half to three miles from Lake Michigan. I doubt that that
has much to do with my SW reception.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

And, as always, don't let your children attend Louisville Technical Institute.
They've hired at least one dufus who once claimed to have a PhD, and who knows,
there may be more dufi there.

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

dxAce wrote:

wrote:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan?

I'm about two and a half to three miles from Lake Michigan.

The shoreline moves 2,000' from time to time?

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

dave wrote:

dxAce wrote:

wrote:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan?

I'm about two and a half to three miles from Lake Michigan.

The shoreline moves 2,000' from time to time?

Every time the seiche hits :-)

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:38:01 UTC, dxAce
wrote:



wrote:

dxAce,
Just wondering how you get such great dx, saw your setup in an old
photo, are you close to Lake Michigan?

I'm about two and a half to three miles from Lake Michigan. I doubt that that
has much to do with my SW reception.
Just thought that you might be getting the "ocean" effect of signals
coming over huge bodies of water instead of land. John Plimmer said
that with my location, I should be getting some good DX, but there are
so damn many locals at night here in Florida, it is hard for foreign
stations to break through!


"What do you mean there's no movie?"

dxAce, are your antennas by the lake?
 

On Apr 14, 3:47*pm,
wrote:
Just thought that you might be getting the "ocean" effect of signals
coming over huge bodies of water instead of land. *John Plimmer said
that with my location, I should be getting some good DX, but there are
so damn many locals at night here in Florida, it is hard for foreign
stations to break through!


Bob, it's not the "ocean" effect, it's the "sea gain" effect and it
operates only on MW mediumwave. It does this over the salt sea water -
it is not clear if it works over freshwater like dxAce's lake
Michigan.

Sea gain does not seem to work for SW, only MW. It was first
discovered and written up in scientific papers by British BBC
engineers 60 years ago.

Bob I'm sorry you don't get any TA reception on MW = you should, even
on your Redsun RP2100 if you take it down to the beach one evening at
sunset. Give it a try.

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