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Alan Smithee wrote:

Just spent the week on the west coast of Vancouver Island DXing... well
trying to. Most nights it was wicked (that's a bad thing!) - way too
much hum and/or white noise as reported.

If anyone is aware of the Tofino/Ucluelet area you know that there's
absolutely nothing between it and Japan. Don't understand the problem.
Puzzling!

Out of the blue one night I did get Radio Denmark clear as a bell, then
it drifted. Perhaps the ionosphere isn't dead - it's just taking a
break!

Today I was listening to Radio Netherlands broadcast from Netherlands
Antilles to Africa on 17810 fade in and out over a couple of hours time
with the D level absorption event that occurred today while watching the
data on this page update in real time. Pretty cool.

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/dregion.html

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Telamon
Ventura, California