[HCDX]: DX session (summary) - Rockport, MA, USA

[Mark Connelly <MarkWA1ION@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings to all. I had a great DX session on Wednesday 
night (15 MAR) at Granite Pier in Rockport, MA. This time, 
unlike some other sessions, I got quite a bit of it on 
tape (highlights may be played at Friday's BADX meeting). 

It was a mostly clear, chilly, and very windy night over at 
the pier. I had to retract the 1.8 m whips (making up the 
two sides of the broadband loop) some as the setup was 
becoming physically unstable in the high gusts. I recently 
acquired two of Wellbrook's fine broadband loop amplifiers 
from Andy Ikin. One of these amplifiers was used for this 
session: it performed admirably. 

Saudi Arabia was running all-night with speeches and Koran 
on a number of channels. Not only was 1521 its usual booming 
self, but I had a huge parallel signal on 594. The Saudi-1440 
outlet overtook the domestics for awhile around 0212 UTC (16 MAR). 

There was a good signal from Greece-981 at 0133 UTC. Middle 
Eastern music was heard behind Croatia-1134 (so maybe Kuwait). 
Iran-1503 peaked at 0032 UTC with a good signal. 702, a 
generally-unproductive channel on many outings, offered 
Morocco early and Slovakia later. Usual big-guns from the 
UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, 
Croatia, Norway, Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, etc. were 
all thundering in. Several UK stations (including "Talk 
Sports" ex "Talk Radio" - 1053/1089) had news stories about 
BMW acquiring the Rover car company. Ceuta-1584 was spot-on 
1584.0 rather than 1583.6. 

Caribbean / South American signals were there, but they 
weren't of high enough quality to steer me away from the 
exciting Trans-Atlantic action.

I expect to do some more listening over the weekend.
Full-detail combined loggings from 15/16 MAR and from
the weekend listening will be issued later.

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Mark Connelly - WA1ION - Billerica, MA, USA 
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