Our
Niihama dx-cabin is in full action again, after almost 9 months of wide
timber work in the antenna forest and at the same time lack of
electricity because of our land lord´s building site nearby. In August
Tampere DX club activists organized 4 installing sessions to bring back
all the in mid-winter away collected antennas: Excellent C2C NA-beverage
of 430 metres directed to 316° and little bit noisier but anyway fine
working SA-beverage of 870 metres to 278° were returned to the very same
paths they used to be erected earlier.
Our
also fine working AS-beverage couldn´t any more been installed to the
old corridor while our land lord´s new building now stays right on the
line. So using a little bit longer coaxial feeding cable a totally new
path was determined, but beverage´s direction and length remain almost
unaltered: 320 metres to 60°. A new La Plata -beverage was also
installed, some 6° more northern and more than 200 metres longer than
earlier: 710 metres 254°.
Very
first listening experience in the beginning of September are most
promising: Hours spent to keep antenna directions straight, connections
sure and sheltered and enough grounding copper hided to each end of
every beverage seems to be worth of all that job. On the background for
proper working beverages there are also plenty of many years field
investigations work to optimize antenna matching units, noise reduction
gadgets and beverage terminating resistors, lead by club´s technical
experts JPF and MDK.
Chilean
stations have been very rarely heard in our dx-cabin earlier, but now
right in the beginning of new antennas testing some nice catches very
made from direction 256°:
930
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3.9.
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0300-
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CHL: CB93 Radio Nuevo Mundo, Santiago
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1020
|
3.9.
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0300-
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CHL: CC102 R Amica, Talca
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1060
|
3.9.
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0300-
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CHL: CB106 R Maria, Santiago
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1270
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6.9.
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0300-
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CHL: CB127 Radio Festival, Viña del Mar
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Also
other nice MW-stations have been already heard from Latin America and
not forgetting Thai, Philippine and other Far-East stations. Stay tuned
to On Line Log to find out more http://log.hard-core-dx.com/,
and of course on the MW-band too. More catches from LA and AS will be
hunted for, and season´s first real NA conditions are expected to arrive
soon!
73 JVH
Foto 2: Hard-core grounding digging in Niihama antenna forest, from left JMV, JPF, MDK and PMA. Foto JVH.
