Re: [HCDX]: DX Listening Digest 00-53 April 15

["Don Moman" <ve6jy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hearing RFPI on 6970, noted at 0502  April 16 with Alternative Radio.  Good
signal up here, so they must have got the repairs done.

73 Don
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Loggings from Don Moman,   Lamont, Alberta CANADA    53 44N  112 50W
Ant: 4-30 mhz rotatable HF log Periodic at 30m, assorted beverages
Receivers:   Collins HF-2050, Yaesu FT-1000mp, ICOM R8500
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> ** COSTA RICA. RFPI`s new US address is P. O. Box 1094, Eugene OR
> 97440. Someone is coming out to repair the cubical quad antenna on
> the 200-foot tower in a few days from April 14, allowing the return
> of the 30 kW transmitter which will be within plus/minus 5 kHz of
> 6975, to avoid interfering with some service in Portugal. Time for
> that will probably be reduced to 0200-0800 UT, and 15049 may be
> closing at 0300 or 0400. This has been a slow cash-flow month, so
> additional contributions from members have been a great help. A new
> antenna is under construction, quarter-wave length, 155 feet long.
> (Joe Bernard and James Latham, RFPI Mailbag April 14, notes by gh for
> DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> Hmm, full wave would be 189 metres or 1580 kHz; maybe really above
> 1600 which was alluded to briefly some weeks ago as a possible new
> frequency range for RFPI. The 6975 QSY and reduced hours on that and
> 15049 will obviously impact the WOR and COM schedules. 15049 was
> still on Sat April 15 at 1100 for the new COM, 1130 new WOR (gh)
>
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