"Fred Burgess" wrote in message
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I'm curious on how well other SWL's on this newsgroup are recieving
their favorite stations. Currently here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
the shortwave reception is dismal. In the last couple of days and
nights, the ONLY station I can recieve, is WWV on 10 Mhz. Nothing
else at all, using a 75' wire on two recievers.

Fred,

I wasn't able to pull in much of anything on SW over the past couple of
days-- even WWV on 10 MHz, "Old Reliable", was very weak here. However, the
ten meter ham band was surely open. I wasn't able to participate in the
contest this past weekend (I live in a CC&R situation and wasn't able to get
to our club station) but I was able to listen to ten meters on my ATS 803A.
The "beacon" portion of 10 meters was amazingly busy with signals of beacons
from all over. Just jotting down beacons filled up 1/2 page in my logbook.

I live in Minnesota, and propagation here is quite "iffy" for a good part of
the year due to our geographic location; however, this past weekend, I was
able to pick up beacons in Hawaii (KH6AP, at just 20 watts!), Texas, the
East Coast, Mexico and east-coast Arctic Canada. All of the beacons are QRP,
with some of them being as low powered as 500 mW. I am very glad to see ten
is open again, as it is my favorite of all the ham bands.

Jackie