TommyBoy wrote:

(Bob) wrote in message
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Reception has been crappy lately up here in British Columbia. It
hasn't been up to much for quite a few months with the exception of
the odd decent day.
Bob

That's been my impression here in the PNW too. I've been expecting
lots of fine and tiny stations in the winter on my recently purchased
(summer) R75, but this really hasn't been the case. Except for some
5-10 kw stations in Brazil I haven't got good copy from anything but
the more powerful broadcasters. I've been waiting and waiting for the
domestic Papua New Guinea stations to make an appearance but so far no
joy. In the past my Sony 2010 captured the Aussie Alice Springs and
her sisters but I'm also waiting for them to become available as well.

North Korea was easy but recently is quite tough. Ditto for RHC
Havana--- and I think they may be having transmitter issues on top of
it all.

Oh well.

That's weird. I settled in for some nice tropical band listening last
night around 0230 and all I heard was this loud hum. It was everywhere,
it even wiped out WWCR on 3210. Nothing in the house is causing it. My
neighbor has what I think is a mercury vapor light on all night, could
that be it?

"CrewL" wrote in message ...
Yeah, things have been quieter in New Zealand than usual. It's summer here
and we can usually here tons of US and South American and Australian CB DX.
But only on the odd day lately.

Maybe the ionosphere has been discontinued, due to lack of funding?

C.

Just south of Seattle and I'm having the same as the rest. Except the
BBC on 5975, 6135 some nights, very weak on 6005 in the local
evenings. I also hear R. Netherlands some nights very well for their
hour at 8:00 local time (I believe).

It seems like everything above the 5/6MHz band is just plain GONE in
the evenings.

chevyorange

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!



In article , AC Smith
wrote:

"CrewL" wrote in message
...
Yeah, things have been quieter in New Zealand than usual. It's summer here
and we can usually here tons of US and South American and Australian CB DX.
But only on the odd day lately.

Maybe the ionosphere has been discontinued, due to lack of funding?

C.

Just south of Seattle and I'm having the same as the rest. Except the
BBC on 5975, 6135 some nights, very weak on 6005 in the local
evenings. I also hear R. Netherlands some nights very well for their
hour at 8:00 local time (I believe).

It seems like everything above the 5/6MHz band is just plain GONE in
the evenings.

chevyorange

In article ,
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

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

In article ,
says...

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!

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? A shortwave
'dead zone' is not exactly an usual event...

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!

Maybe it's got holes in it...

FW

(Frank White) wrote in message ...
In article ,
says...

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!

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? A shortwave
'dead zone' is not exactly an usual event...

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!

Maybe it's got holes in it...

FW

HAARP!!!!

I leave in Seattle area I did notice a lot hum/buzz on 6 and 9 MHZ before
Christmas
is improving now. I can receive Australia,New Zealand,BBC,Denmark,Bulgaria,
Taiwan,Radio China regularly after Christmas.

I will admit I use a 40' dipole antenna and a Welbrook Loop antenna.
I you are using only a portable with wip antenna you probably
be disappointed with reception. Most International transmissions
are directed to 'eastern' North America.

"AC Smith" wrote in message
om...
(Frank White) wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

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!

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? A shortwave
'dead zone' is not exactly an usual event...

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!

Maybe it's got holes in it...

FW

HAARP!!!!