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QSLs Received / Re: X-FM eQSL(s)
« on: February 11, 2020, 1829 UTC »
I also received #1429 for the 17Feb19 show.  Thank you redhat!

92
Longwave Loggings / Re: New to longwave
« on: January 30, 2020, 0112 UTC »
Most likely you are hearing some IM mixing products caused by strong local MW broadcasters.  If these are there during the daytime hours, that is most likely the case.

Just about every LW DXer use a LPF prior to their receiver.  I DX with mainly an 8 foot amplified vertical whip, and I use a 550 Hz LPF before the RX.

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs
« on: January 22, 2020, 1742 UTC »
Recent Logs from Downers Grove, Illinois

2020-01-09  0607  205.0  MXN           +1022      Maxaranguape, , BRA  6371 Km    NEW
2020-01-09  0607  235.0  PJE           +980       St Eustatius, , ATN  3607 Km    NEW
2020-01-09  0651  246.0  IBL  -1021    +1021      Isabela, , GAL  4763 Km
2020-01-06  0402  257.0  YR   -1065    +935       Goose Bay, NL, CAN  2423 Km 
2020-01-18  0610  266.0  SAA  -1011    +1010      Saratoga, WY, USA  1559 Km  back on the air
2020-01-09  0651  300.0  TFE  -1024    +1021      Tefe, , BRA  5555 Km   
2020-01-09  0847  305.0  MDD  -1049               Almeirm  (PA), , BRA  5936 Km    NEW
2020-01-07  0609  310.0  MCL           +1072      Montes Claros, , BRA  7939 Km    NEW
2020-01-07  0609  325.0  SKB           +1020      Bradshaw, , SCN  3637 Km
2020-01-15  0809  328.0  HB   -398     +389       Holsteinborg  (Kitaa), , GRL  3489 Km  with trailing E
2020-01-19  0422  336.0  QQ   -410                Qaanaaq, , GRL  4068 Km    NEW
2020-01-17  0751  341.0  SM   -414     +400       Sisimiut, , GRL  3489 Km
2020-01-06  0433  346.0  1D            +447       Charlottetown, NL, CAN  2675 Km
2020-01-14  0247  366.0  AU            +1007      Augusta, ME, USA  1503 Km
2020-01-08  0735  366.0  ZMN           +400       Lewisville  (Moncton), NB, CAN  1918 Km
2020-01-14  0308  371.0  FQW  -1010    +1015      Murfreesboro, TN, USA  661 Km   back on the air
2020-01-15  0724  310.0  PSN           +1026      Piracununga (SP), , BRA  8240 Km    NEW
2020-01-14  0255  380.0  FIL           +1022      Horta / Faial Island, , AZR  4962 Km
2020-01-06  0616  389.0  TW   -1023               Twin Falls, ID, USA  2168 Km
2020-01-14  0330  391.0  MA   -404                Manitsoq  (Kitaa), , GRL  3419 Km
2020-01-17  0157  397.0  JE   -1051    +1024      Jefferson City, MO, USA  493 Km  back on the air
2020-01-14  0321  397.0  OW   -1061    +1030      Norwood, MA, USA  1399 Km
2020-01-22  0537  419.0  GB   -1044    +1017      Great Bend, KS, USA  1002 Km  back on the air

94
Propagation / Re: Grey line map (real time)
« on: January 16, 2020, 1920 UTC »
https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/misc/0059.html

It's old school and discontinued, but emits no EMI, requires no batteries, and adds no clutter to the monitor display.

95
Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs
« on: January 09, 2020, 1910 UTC »
I have seen many longer distance logs, but this is admittedly a fur piece.  Landlocked Chicago does not benefit greatly from any water paths with the exception of the west coast of SA, and that helped a bunch here.  IIRC the listed power of NAS is 1 kW, which does not hurt a bit.

96
Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs
« on: January 05, 2020, 1734 UTC »
10680km   holy shit!  Nice one.

Thanks!

This was grabbed from a recording in SDR Console.  I record 2 Gig 44 minute long files.  I use a program called Pskov which leverages the fact that NDB are time repetitive.  The code will do auto correlation on a given offset and present the results to the user.  It does a great job of detecting NDBs which are near the noise floor.  Here is the cap from that reception:




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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs
« on: January 04, 2020, 2004 UTC »
Recent Logs from Downers Grove, Illinois


2020-01-03  0321  270.0  NAS           +1023    Puntas Arenas, , CHL  10680 Km
2020-01-03  0321  320.0  JPS           +1029    Joao Pessoa  (PB), , BRA  7659 Km
2019-12-27  0505  329.0  FOF           +406     Fort De France, , MRT  3986 Km
2020-01-02  0344  350.0  LPZ  -1021    +1013    La Paz, , BOL  6802 Km
2020-01-01  0602  355.0  URC  -1024             Coari, , BRA  5681 Km    NEW
2020-01-03  0405  357.0  CIS           +1029    Corn Island, , NCG  3329 Km  no LSB found
2020-01-03  0321  380.0  BRU           +1026    Bauru (SP), , BRA  8183 Km    NEW
2020-01-02  0429  410.0  PEL  -1032    +1027    Ponta Pelada  / Manaus   (AM), , BRA  5750 Km
2019-12-27  0505  415.0  SLS           +1017    Salinas  (Guayas), , EQA  4945 Km


NDBs this report 9  New NDBs 2

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Christmas holiday NDB logs!
« on: January 03, 2020, 2221 UTC »
Thanks, Chris!

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Christmas holiday NDB logs!
« on: January 03, 2020, 2102 UTC »
Yes, that was one of the papers. I also recall another, I believe by a Canadian DXer (his name escapes me).

Dave Clark was Canadian.

Does not look promising for tonight, we'll see.

Still gotta play the game.

100
Longwave Loggings / Re: Christmas holiday NDB logs!
« on: January 03, 2020, 1805 UTC »
I wonder if you are referring to papers published in the Fine Tuning "Proceedings" in the late 80s early 90s by John Bryant and Dave Clark?  They analyzed reception of primarily 90M PNGs and Indos and hypothesized that some form of whispering gallery or chordal hop prop model could explain why some stations could be heard at far distances but be inaudible at intermediary points.

As for LF, I have no iodear what's going on up there.  I kinda believe a commonly imagined model in which there is not an actual hop at a presumed reflection point, but rather a low angle "brush by" of the earth's surface.

Conditions over the last cupla days have been very good at times, but I have not been able to capitalize on the dramatic N and NE props others have been seeing.  I have spent the better part of this morning trying to push my reception envelope out past GRL by looking for ISL and a couple in the Azores but no luck there.  I HAVE, however, been noting excellent props to SA the last 2 nites.  I have logged 21 from SA the last couple of nites, and have once again logged the NDB down in Puntas Arenas (>10000 kM) so I am not complaining.  Those are just the cards that Chuck and the other Great Gods of Propagation have dealt me.

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Christmas holiday NDB logs!
« on: January 03, 2020, 0248 UTC »
Things were awesome if you lived on the right coast.  Many TAs logged in Nova Scotia, and even one Russian.  Here in the Flatlands great reception from South America, but not much from the East.  Chuck Norris prob don't like me.

102
Longwave Loggings / Re: Christmas holiday NDB logs!
« on: January 01, 2020, 1958 UTC »
Welcome back, Chanter!  Very glad to hear that the 398 is operating again.

103
Longwave Loggings / Re: Take Off to the Great White North
« on: December 31, 2019, 0135 UTC »
Wow nice DX.  I've been trying Rankin Inlet every night but I can never hear it well enough to copy behind Old Crow  >:(.

I've been checking for YOC every nite but RT is always in the way :)

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Winter 2019 NDB Logs
« on: December 27, 2019, 1946 UTC »
Recent Logs from Downers Grove, Illinois

I do believe in the solar minimum.  I do believe in the solar minimum.

2019-12-23  0449  235.0  NVG    -1023              Naveagantes (SC), , BRA  8653 Km    NEW
2019-12-18  0838  246.0  IBL    -1021              Isabela, , GAL  4763 Km
2019-12-22  0828  267.0  HET    -1024    +1022     Henryetta, OK, USA  993 Km
2019-12-21  0436  270.0  NAS    -1023              Puntas Arenas, , CHL  10680 Km    NEW
2019-12-23  0449  270.0  NAS    -1023    +1023     Puntas Arenas, , CHL  10680 Km
2019-12-18  0838  275.0  GUY             +1022     Guymon, OK, USA  1293 Km
2019-12-14  0525  280.0  GYZ    -1037    +1030     Guernsey, WY, USA  1378 Km
2019-12-21  0436  280.0  SOL    -402     +398      Guayaquil  (Guayas), , EQA  4964 Km
2019-12-22  0530  300.0  TFE             +1021     Tefe, , BRA  5555 Km    NEW
2019-12-21  0436  327.0  FXC    -403     +399      Cayenne, , GUF  5425 Km
2019-12-18  0921  329.0  PJ              +401      Robinson  (Whitehorse), YT, CAN  3762 Km    NEW
2019-12-16  0101  335.0  YUT             +400      Repulse Bay, NU, CAN  2757 Km
2019-12-18  0921  347.0  4Q     -1031              Brochet, MB, CAN  2037 Km    NEW
2019-12-18  0838  350.0  VTR    -1021              McGrath, AK, ALS  4866 Km    NEW
2019-12-21  0436  355.0  SNO    -1028    +1022     Santo Domingo, , CHL  8562 Km
2019-12-21  0606  360.0  OAS             +1014     Andoas, , PRU  5099 Km
2019-12-21  0606  370.0  AYA    -1056              Ayacucho, , PRU  6276 Km
2019-12-21  0606  375.0  CUB             +1010     Corumba (MS), , BRA  7457 Km
2019-12-20  1005  414.0  LOJ             +1015     Loja, , EQA  5168 Km
2019-12-16  0036  420.0  V7BE3  -398     +403      Deepwater Proteus, , XON

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Longwave Loggings / Re: NDB's heard from the Yukon in Winter
« on: December 26, 2019, 2158 UTC »
EPH 245 is new and has not been positively nailed down.  They say it is local to Seattle, and that EPH may mean Ephrata.

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