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Spring NDB Logs

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EchoDeltaXray:
i consider grabbing low hanging fruit being DX as well FYI lol.

Very impressive!

i'm waaaaaaaay more of a layman so i've never DX'd in cooridination with any of the online tools mapping space weather or atmospheric changes and conditions

EchoDeltaXray:
ALSO:  RNB 363 Millville NJ really gets out.  It makes sense that I would get it due to the ocean path but for you to get it that far inland is impressive.  Do you know how many watts its transmitting?  Its still remarkable for me with a portable to have logged it as outside of my home state of massachusetts, i've only received four other NDB's from a US state - 198 & 216 from the North Carolina coast, RNB 363 from NJ and randomly 400 PTD from Potsdam NY.

jFarley:
RNB is listed at 50 watts.  It looks like it has been logged all the way to the west coast.

jFarley:
I made an Old School plot of the new NDB logs I have noted here since moving the rod peak response azimuth to 320-140 degrees.  This has remained constant throughout the listening sessions posted in the first post in this thread, at least thru 31Mar15.  The results are pretty clear.



The axes of rod Peak and Null responses are noted on the chart.

Each black dot represents a new log which has not been heard previously this Winter-Spring.  These new logs tend to be located around the az of Peak response +/- 20 degrees or so.  Very few new logs have been noted away from the Peak axis, and if so, they tend to be more local NDBs.

In these listening sessions, I was not actively searching for new NDBs, but just scanning the band and seeing what I could pull out of pileups.

A couple of comments:

- The dashed line labelled "GPI, PAL" is the approx az to the only 2 South American logs this season.  These were not heard in the previous orientation of the rod, which was approx 90 degrees from its current orientation.  Likewise, I was not hearing the Caribbean stations which are quite common logs now.

- The letters "W" and "R" correspond to the NDBs in Winnipeg, MB (WG, 250 watts, ~700 miles) and Red Lake, ON (RL, 500 watts, ~700 miles).  These are very interesting because both of these can now be heard almost 24/7 on days of reasonably low GM activity.  This was not true with the previous orientation of the rod.

- In the previously orientation, I was logging many stations in Quebec and the Maritimes.  Very few of these logs now, and definitely no new logs.

- The ability to null stations from a particular az is pronounced, but will be further evaluated when I get the thing mounted on a rotator.

- Though the map seems to indicate that I live in Green Bay,  I must have fat-fingered my coordinates when generating the map!

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