For Release FEB 20, 2001

USPS: Jim Renfrew, 6988 Bank Street Rd., Byron NY 14422-9702

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A short column this week, as I had to finish it four days earlier than usual. Excellent LW conditions the last few nights, some strong enough to enjoy at near local level. Now, off on a short vacation!

We have two interesting DX’ing Memories and a dream travelogue to follow this week’s reports.

153 ALGERIA RDif Sonore, FEB 13 0039-0050+ - Presumed with high-pitched vocal music. Voice after song too buried to confirm if AR. This is the 1st time I've gotten audio on this LW frequency only from MI. 162, 189 & 252 always show up first but nothing there tonight. Very poor. [Frodge-MI] FEB 18 0353 - strong with live concert of Middle Eastern-style music. Had call to prayer at 0503 recheck. Good signal. [Wolfish-ON]

153 GERMANY Deutschlandfunk, Donebach, FEB 18 0403 - underneath Algeria with pop music. Parallel to a weak signal on 207. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 18 0503 - German news // 177, although 177 moves on to music after the news, while 153 stays with talk. At 0509 I heard "Deutschland" mentioned. Algeria is ually dominant. See 207 item below. [Renfrew-NY]

162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis, FEB 17 2040 - first LW signal noted today, with some kind of sports play-by-play. Was audible with strong signals all evening until at least 0650, including 0332 when they were playing music by Leonard Cohen. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 10 0631 - Woman with talk in FF. [Braun-DE]

177 GERMANY DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Oranienburg, FEB 18 0125 - German announcer playing jazz music. Fair signal. Later in the evening, Europe Un on 183 had a strong signal than DLR's on 177. [Wolfish-ON]

180 TURKEY TRT Polatli, FEB 18-19 2340-0003, This frequency is usually awash with Euro #1 183, but tonight noted with Middle Eastern vocals, four short and one long pips at 2400, and what sounded like "Radio Bir" by a woman. The EMWG says this is TRT4, and the WRTH says this is TRT2 Radio Iki, so am I mistaken in having heard TRT1 Radio Bir? I have a tape of this which I’ll bring over to the retired Turkish doctor here in Byron. [Renfrew-NY]

183 GERMANY Europe Un, Saarlouis, FEB 17 0240 - good signal with phone interview in French. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 10 0630 - Talk by woman in FF. [Braun-DE]

189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar, FEB 18 0122 - good signal with music by Bruce Springsteen. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 10 0614 - Walk by woman in UNID language, perhaps Iceland

due to conditions at time. [Braun-DE]

198 ALGERIA Alger Chaine 1, FEB 20 0445 - at first I was studying the BBC signal because a slight "fuzziness" indicated synchronized transmitters, but then I noticed a vocal piece that was the same as was being played on 153 kHz. Very weak, but clearly parallel. The 153 program had 5 low and one high pip at 0500:15, following the German station’s pips which were dead-on. [Renfrew-NY]

198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Droitwich etc., FEB 8 0334 - Fair with BBC man and woman in discussion. [Dangerfield-PA] FEB 18 0326 - fair signal parallel to 5975 and 6175 with cricket scores. [Wolfish-ON]

207 GERMANY DLF Alhoming, FEB 18 2330 - German news clearly // 153, mostly under the Morocco station. FEB 20 0345 - classical music, then news at 0400, end of news at 0405:45 seemed to give program title as "... informacion ...", talk followed, ID included mention of "Deutschlandfunk" at 0500 with three short and one long pips. All parallel to 153. [Renfrew-NY]

207 ICELAND INBS Eidar, FEB 18 0423 - poor to fair signal with music by Everlast and Chicago. QRM from Morocco. Parallel to 189, but 189 was much stronger. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 20 0428 - distinct delta blues guitar // 189 noted in the Germany/Algeria mess on this frequency. Not easily heard at all, but that guitar piece made it through. On 189 news began with ID "Utvarp Reykjavik"at 0430, return to music at 0435. I didn’t think 207 was still on the air, but Niel’s report tipped me to it. [Renfrew-NY]

207 MOROCCO Azilal, FEB 18 0147 - man in Arabic and Middle Eastern style music. Poor signal. [Wolfish-ON]

216 MONACO Radio Monte Carlo, Roumoules, FEB 18 0328 - with IS and ID as "Radio Monte Carlo" in French.... Played a orchestral version of their interval signal followed by a newscast read by a woman at 0400 and then music by Bruce Hornsby & The Range. [Wolfish-ON]

216 UNID, FEB 18 0437-0533 - This one was under the Monaco station, with a man and woman talking. It was hard to identify the language, and the only only station listed is an inactive Russian station. I searched around for Russian shortwave parallels to no avail. Does anyone know who this might be? FEB 20 0503 - the second signal noted again tonight around this time, but not noted when sought during the previous hour, so maybe it signs on at 0500? Niel says it almost sounds like FF, and I am tempted to agree with him, although no distinct words could be heard. [Renfrew-NY] FEB 18 0535-0610 - second station here under Monte Carlo. Talk by a man and a woman, but not sure of language. Almost seemed like it was French to me. [Wolfish-ON]

225 POLAND Polskie Radio, FEB 18 0450 - weak with talk by man and a woman. [Wolfish-ON]

234 LUXEMBURG Junglinster, FEB 8 0417 - Good. Woman in FF, pop vocal. This station was a favorite of mine during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 while it was still in German controlled territory. [Dangerfield-PA] FEB 18 0300 - Noted with man reading news in French. Noted later at 0510 with music by Moby, the Police and "Eye of The Tiger" by Survivor. Poor to fair signal. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 10 0616 - Presumed with man and woman talking in FF, sounded like an ad? [Braun -DE]

243 DENMARK Danmarks Radio, FEB 18 0433 - appeared at listed sign-on time in 2000 WRTH with several minutes of classical music... Man speaking in Danish at 0446 recheck. Poor signal, but rarely heard here. [Wolfish-ON]

252 ALGERIA R. Alger, Tipaza, FEB 15 2240 - Fair. Woman in FF. No sign of Ireland. [Dangerfield-PA] FEB 18 2248 - tentative, way stronger than Atlantic 252 in FF, but faded before ID time. [Renfrew-NY]

252 IRELAND Atlantic 252, FEB 18 0534 - Music by TLC and Eminem. ID "that's the end of 12 in-a-row on Atlantic 252". Good signal on top of the Algerian. [Wolfish-ON]

270 CZECH REPUBLIC Cesky Rozhlas, FEB 18 0439 - Weak with talk by a man in what I assume was Czech. Tried to catch an ID at top of the hour, but couldn't pick one out. Sounded like a news cast at 0500. [Wolfish-ON] FEB 18 2252 - noted for the first time with weak talk under strong NDB interference. FEB 20 0342 - "Just Another Magic Monday" American pop tune, male DJ, phone caller also; faded to a much weaker level throughout the next hour. [Renfrew-NY]

549 ALGERIA Chaine 1, Les Trembles FEB 17 0310 - Good; string music and vocal parallel 153. [Conti-NH]

567 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Tullamore FEB 17 0325 - Fair; jazz instrumental, brief announcement in English, and blues vocal. [Conti-NH]

585 SPAIN RNE Madrid FEB 17 0335 - Good; conversation in Spanish and pop vocal. [Conti-NH]

594 SAUDI ARABIA Duba, FEB 17 0327 - Weak. Man chanting in AA, // to 1521 [Dangerfield-PA]

612 MOROCCO Sebaa-Aioun, FEB 17 0246 - Good-briefly with male vocal in AA [Dangerfield-PA]

675 NETHERLANDS Lopik, FEB 10 0252 - Fair. Pop song, female vocal. [Dangerfield-PA]

783 MAURETANIA Nouakchott, FEB 13 2327 - Good with Mauretanian local music, strings, etc, and announcements in AA. This one heard most nights, // of course, SW 4845. Sign off 0100. [Dangerfield-PA]

837 FRANCE Nancy, FEB 14 0428 - Fair with Radio Bleue easy listening music and a fem announcer in FF. And // to the other Bleue stations including 864, 1206, 1377, and 1557. [Dangerfield-PA]

846 ITALY Rome, FEB 10 0328 - Fair. Man in Italian with end of news. [Dangerfield-PA]

891 ALGERIA Algiers, FEB 17 0237 - bits of female Arabic vocal noted. Poor. [Wolfish-ON] 1062 DENMARK Kalundborg, FEB 8 0422 - Fair despite KYW. Man in Danish [Dangerfield-PA] FEB 10 0553 - Presumed with bits of man talking in UNID language in heavy KYW slop. First time this one has had audio here. {Braun-DE]

1089 ENGLAND Talk Sport synchros FEB 17 2303 - Excellent! "...and that's the latest. More news and sport at midnight," followed by talk show intro, "On 1089 and 1053 AM, Tommy Boyd on Talk Sport," significant echo indicating reception of more than one of the synchro stations. [Conti-NH]

1098 LOVAKIA Slovensko 1, Velke Zaluzie FEB 17 2306 - Good; easy listening instrumental, then discussion between a man and woman in Slovak. [Conti-NH]

1179 CANARY ISLANDS Santa Cruz [presumed] FEB 10 2143 - Good briefly, Spanish type music with male vocal. I think this was Santa Cruz as others in that part of the world were in then, but nothing from mainland Spain. When I first spotted the het I thought it would turn out to be Sweden, so far unheard here this season. [Dangerfield-PA]

1188 UNID FEB 13 0104 - Man in Unid language, briefly. Think possibly the Hungarian as the signal was very sharp as it has always been when picked up here. Did get Morocco here once.

[Dangerfield-PA]

1206 RANCE France Bleu, Bordeaux FEB 17 0300 - Good; 1980's Kajagoogoo hit "Too Shy," then France Bleu jingle into a romantic French vocal. [Conti-NH]

1314 ORWAY NRK Kvitsoy FEB 10 2250 - Excellent; man in Norwegian and folk music. FEB 17 2245 - Fair; usual rock/pop/folk music mix, not nearly as strong as in previous weeks despite good transatlantic reception conditions. [Conti-NH] FEB 10 0602 - Booming in with usual female

talk, presumed news, and then pop-type female vocal. [Braun-DE]

1341 NORTHERN IRELAND BBC R.Ulster, Lisnagarvey FEB 18 0020 - Poor; BBC

sports news parallel 198, as transatlantic signals dropped off considerably from earlier this evening. [Conti-NH]

1377 FRANCE France Bleu, Lille FEB 18 0015 - Good; French vocal parallel 1206, dueling hets from 1380 domestics and St. Pierre on 1375. [Conti-NH]

1386 KALININGRAD (RUSSIA) LBH Radio, Bolshakovo FEB 17 2357 - Fair; Heatwave "Boogie Nights," then an announcement in British-accented English and hits by Phil Collins, Chicago, and Elton John. [Conti-NH]

1422 GERMANY DLR Heusweiler FEB 17 2345 - Good; woman in German and lounge music parallel 153. [Conti-NH]

1512 BELGIUM Wolverton, FEB 11 2239 - Good. Men and a woman in discussion in EE. [Dangerfield-PA] FEB 17 2300 - Good; "From studios in Hilversum, Holland, this is... Radio Netherlands. This broadcast is to Europe on satellite and mediumwave, and worldwide via the Internet," and news in English. [Conti-NH]

1530 VATICAN CITY, FEB 11 2301. Over WSAI with man in Italian. Vatican IS at 2305. [Dangerfield-PA] 1548 RUSSIA Voice of Russia, Grigoriopol FEB 17 2220 - Tentative; woman in Slavic language, piano instrumental, briefly good signal fading to nil by 2230, VOA Kuwait is supposed to be in English 2100-0300 so VOR is my best guess. [Conti-NH]

1548 KUWAIT VOA Kuwait City FEB 17 2325 - Fair; report in English from Hollywood, then "Many of our local FM and mediumwave affiliates are about to take a two-minute break. You're listening to VOA News Now" and instrumental music. [Conti-NH]

1557 FRANCE Nice, Very good, with soft music. Radio Bleue program. Best outlet that night. [Dangerfield-PA]

1584.65 CEUTA RadiOle, Ceuta FEB 17 2240 - Good; Spanish pop vocal over het from SER Spain on 1584. [Conti-NH]

Jim speaks: "The Internet is filled with reports (well, at least a few) about excellent TA conditions. It would sure seem so with some of unusual LW stations I’ve heard. Even so, the only MW TA’s noted were weak audio on 684 and a het on 1521. This just in: a man speaking on 1134 at 0139 UTC, but I have to leave (I’m coordinating a movie marathon for Presbyterian teens tonight from 11 PM until dawn!)"

Ben speaks: "Since returning from my South American trip on 2-7 I have found TA reception considerably improved from the months of November, December and January, though still not as good as previous years. And, as others have noted, the LWs have improved more than the MWs. Of course, I know I could do much better than this on LW if I had longer wires, but I haven't the room. As for the MW band, the good signals have been scattered all over, but there have been few good high band openings. The big guys like 684, 1089, 1134, 1314 and 1521 have been pretty consistent, and most of the French Bleues, but the smaller Spanish stations are not like they were. Italy has been poor. None-the-less, I had signals from 60 TA frequencies last night [2-16] and have averaged about 35 to 45 frequencies per night during the past 10 days. And of the 60 frequencies heard last night almost half had some kind of readable audio. At this point of the season, I will go out on a limb and predict that March will be a good TA month. As for the LAs, well, there hasn't been much of interest. No auroreal situations; just a few of the regulars. Boy, did that trip around SA spoil me!"

Bruce speaks: "News via the Internet is that a change in the hemispherical polarity of the sun has been observed, indicating that we have passed the peak of sunspot cycle 23. Despite being at the peak of the solar cycle, transatlantic DX was outstanding mid-February. Many of my February 17 transatlantic logs, including the tentative reception of Russia on 1548, can be heard on the March edition of the DX Audio Service. According to a report from Jerry Berg at the February meeting of Boston Area DXers (BADX), there's a Radio Nacional Rep Arabe Saharaui Democratie from Tindouf, Algeria now on 7357 kilohertz shortwave. This might be parallel 1550 kilohertz. I've since logged 7357, but haven't been able to get 1550 for a parallel check."

Niel speaks: "Ken Alexander and I were listening last night and were stumped by the same

mystery. The second station under Monte Carlo almost sounded like it was French to us. We were listening as late as 0600. We had other great LW too like you, plus we had Morocco, Iceland and Germany competing on 207 at various times. The German parallel to 153 and Iceland parallel to 189. And a wee bit of Czech Republic on 270 too. Still trying to log a LW station on 261 and 279, however.

No luck with an MW audio, just various hets."

Dave speaks: "Actually have some TA logs for the first time in a long time. Feb 4 had a lot of hets across the band, mostly the Spain and France frequencies, and then got audio on a few last evening (Feb 10 UTC)."

1331 UNID. Some audio, mostly het. Heard nightly. What has me interested is that I also had a het on this frequency while recently cruising off the Argentina coast, and I suspected Brazil. Down through the years I have heard several off-frequency Brazilians up here and I did verify one of them. [Dangerfield-PA]

1375 ST. PIERRE ET MIQUELON, RFO, FEB 18 0421-0650 - with a weak signal parallel to longwave 162 with music by Tina Turner. [Wolfish-ON]

"I read your remarks on your first TA reception in 1977, WDR on 1586. In the late 70's they changed the pattern on AM in Europe, then it became 1593 with a giant 800 kW signal at night time. This frequency was closed in the early 90's. I regretted it, because it always kept contact to home when I was on vacation. I heard from people that this WDR frequency could even be heard in South Africa, regularly at night. I am living about 20 miles away from the transmitter site. About 2 years ago, during repair work(!), the whole antenna construction was destroyed. They rebuilt the whole site, now ransmitting on 720 kHz with only 60 kW, but want to upgrade again to 250 kW later this year. BTW, TA reception has become tough in Europe as well, I am glad when I can pick up a tiny signal from the East

Coast once a year.Best regards from a European AM listener." [Ingolf Schulte, Duesseldorf, Germany <ingolfschulte@t-online.de>]

I've been reading the various comments about TA DX recently. Bruce Conti and Ben Dangerfield have been hearing a lot over the past week. Neil Kazaross in IL said that the DX wasn't making it out there even on nights over the last 2 weeks when I was hearing Norway-1314 at S9+30 here in Billerica (15 miles NW of Boston). Another thing I've enjoyed greatly (in NRC's DX News and on their reflector) have been the accounts of employment in radio. Great stuff ... nostalgic, heart-warming, sometimes funny and sometimes leaving a sad feeling that the best days of the radio business are behind us. Ben's report from his recent South American trip was also noteworthy.

Some of you have probably wondered what I've been doing lately. My mother passed away early

in January. Following that period of sadness for me and the whole family, my brother and I have been involved in the sale of the house in W. Yarmouth, MA where my parents had lived in retirement since 1974. Yesterday (Friday, 16 FEB), the house sale went through and an era of my travelling to Cape Cod on a frequent basis came to an end. During the past 27 years of these trips, DXing has often been a component - from my folks' house, from my brother-in-law's place in E. Harwich, and - most frequently of all - from the car at various beach sites yielding maximum foreign station signal levels. Back in the '70s, I DX'ed with Marc DeLorenzo when he lived around the corner in W. Yarmouth and from Skip Wolsieffer's (WA1CML) QTH in Osterville. More recently I'd drop in on Vern Brownell (W1VB) in Chatham and on Steve Clang in Plymouth.

I remember the early days when my parents permitted me to leave a hulking R-390A in their basement and wires in their pine trees. The logs of goodies like Paraguay-645, China-1525, and Greenland-1425. Times that my wife and I stayed there for a week in the summer to enjoy the beach, fried clam dinners, and the room my mother dubbed "the honeymoon suite". The house on Trowbridge Path had a lot of good memories associated with it, but since my mother had gone to a nursing home in April 2000, it became ghostly quiet except for when my brother and I would stop by to maintain things and

gradually empty it out.

How fitting it was, DX wise, that my trip out to a favorite beach site in South Orleans, MA on Friday afternoon (following the closing on the house) brought conditions that I could only describe as "legendary". Virtually every TA channel had a good, often a huge, signal on it. Even some of the 10 kHz channel Europeans rolled over the co-channel domestics, for instance, SER Spain on 1080 was DEMOLISHING WTIC. Best TA DX this side of Newfoundland by my reckoning ... it's going to take me a week to type the logs ! Peak reception time was between 4 and 6 p.m. EST (2100-2300 UTC) though some early blasters like 549, 981, 1251, and 1521 showed up on the car radio as early as 3 p.m. before

I got things set up over at the beach / town landing near Tar Kiln Road and Route 28. By 6 p.m. it was raining heavily, so I went over to the brother-in-law's house in E. Harwich (where I'd put up a temporary sloper off the top of a 70' pitch pine tree earlier that day). DX continued to roll in through the evening.

I slept awhile and then got up about 2 a.m. (0700 UTC Saturday, 17 FEB) to see if I could bag the Faroes sign-on on 531 kHz at 0715. Spain had that channel solidly in control, indeed they were as strong as adjacent Turks & Caicos on 530 ! So Faroes went unheard this time but the other TA's were still booming in. Longwave and low band medium wave hung in there incredibly late those early hours of Saturday

morning. I was getting Atlantic-252 at 5.05 a.m. EST (1005 UTC) and a remnant of Ireland-567 was noted at the same time. This beats (by 5 minutes) my previous late TA reception time of 1000 UTC when I'd logged UK on 1214 (now 1215) from Menotomy Rocks Park in Arlington, MA back in December of 1966.

For another fitting conclusion of my "Cape Cod DX era", I tested out several loops during stable daytime conditions. These included the old and new Gerry Thomas Quantums, a Kiwa loop, and a homebrew broadband design. The results of these tests will be published within the next month in an article likely to be titled "Loop Shoot-Out at East Harwich".

Though an era has ended, I still expect to take the 2-hour drive to the Cape a few times each year

for recreation. I can stay over in East Harwich sometimes and maybe I can drop in on guys like Vern Brownell in Chatham and on other DXers a bit off Cape in nearby Plymouth and Marshfield. And who knows where I might wind up retiring 14 or so years from now. It's going to be near the ocean wherever it is, be it Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, or wherever. (Virgin Islands or Hawaii if the lottery tickets come through !) In the mean time, closer to home, I can go out to coastal sites in Rockport or Rowley for "juiced up" DX on after-work outings once the weather gets a little milder and sunset roughly coincides with (or comes a bit after) my arrival time at the shore (typically 6 to 6.30 p.m. local). Sometime in March I expect to do my first after-work mini-DXpedition for year 2001. At home, I can certainly hear some of the bigger guns (including nearly needle-pegging signals from Norway-1314 and Saudi Arabia-1521 on a frequent basis), but for the really excellent stuff, I have to drive to the seashore. Luckily this can be done (during good weather) in less than an hour from home in Billerica or from work

in North Andover. So as some people's DX season runs down in March, mine usually is just getting off the ground then. [Connelly-MA]

Got back Feb. 6 from our most recent trip which mainly was a cruise from Valparaiso, Chile, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. First had to get there via Detroit, Miami, Panama City, and Santiago, and that was no picnic, but happily we and our luggage made it. The cruise took 14 days and we had shore trips along the Chilean coast before reaching the land of fjords with the snow-covered Andes to the east. Turned in-ward at the Strait of Magellan and sailed as far as Puento Arenas, Chile where we stopped to sight see including a penguin colony. Then turned south through the Beagle Channel with glaciers lined up on our side and made a stop at Ushuaia, Argentina, the southern-most city in the world, about 1000 miles north of the Antarctic Circle. From there we rounded Cape Horn and headed for the Falkland Islands, but sad to say, couldn't stop there because of very rough seas. Then up the Argentina coast to Montevideo, Uruguay, and thence across the Rio La Plata to Buenos Aires for a day before flying home via Panama City, Newark and Philadelphia. Our cabin had an outside balcony, thus enabling me to DX from it with my Sony SW-100-S and my KIWA pocket loop. Otherwise, nothing from inside except locals while in port. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate my station listings so will report only the highlights as I recall them. Of course, just hearing the Chileans as semi-locals was a thrill, while I logged each city as we cruised down the west coast. I began to hear Argentinians as we got further south, and then, Falkland Islands-550. Puento Arenas has a slew of stations, but at Ushuaia I logged LRA-10 on 780, the most southern station in the world. We rounded Cape Horn [an island] and reception got really good. At noon both Falkland Islands stations had strong signals even though they were still 400 miles away. On 530 kc. is FIBS with local programs, [don't know the power], and on 550 is BSBS with pickups from BBC Radio 5. I was surprised that they were so close in frequency. I heard Maggie Thatcher sending a message to the Falklands on the 20th anniversary of the war. Also heard off the Horn at noon were several Puento Arenas stations and some coastal Argentinians. After dark, stations in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio were easily logged, among them Radio Libertad-950, El Mundo-1070, and Radio Buenos Aires-1350. Also good was Radio Imparcial-1090, Montevideo which I regularly heard up here 40 yeqrs ago. Some Rio stations heard with good signals were Radio Nacional-1130, Radio Globo-1220, and Radio Tupi-1280. I loved the quite specific ID from LR3 on 950: "Ellay-erray-tres, Radio Libertad, Buenos Aires, Argentina." I have this one verified as Radio Belgrano. Apparently, call letters are often used in Argentina, but you really have to listen for the station name and location. Also, off the southern Argentina coast I was able to identify Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa-1098, which had a fair signal. Picked up hets on 711 [probably Western Sahara], 1088 [probably Angola] and 1521 [guess who], but that's all. About 300 miles south of Buenos Aires the Falklands disappeared and I began to hear a SS on 530 which I failed to ID. I also logged Argentina stations on most of the X-Band frequencies from some distance out. Also heard Radio Nanduti-1020 Assuncion, Paraguay one night. Once in the Montevideo-Buenos Aires area there were so many locals that any distant reception was impossible, even from my balcony. Didn't DX after that, not even in Panama City, which is as honky-tonk a place as you can find. [Dangerfield-PA]

Dave Braun, Wyoming DE; Kenwood R-5000, Quantum Loop, Palomar Loop (LW logs),

<dcbraun@delanet.com>

Mark Connelly, Billerica MA.

Bruce Conti, Nashua NH; R8B, MWDX-5, 30-m wire, 30-m east sloping wire,

noise-reduced via 4:1 RF transformers and buried coax. <BAConti@aol.com>

Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford PA; R8A, 4 slopers, DXP-3A phasing unit.

<ben-dangerfield@worldnet.att.net> Travel logs with Sony-S-100-S, KIWA pocket loop.

Harold Frodge, Midland MI; R8B + 85'/215' RW's, 125 ft. single loop, Icom R2 + ducky.

Jim Renfrew, Byron NY; Drake R8, 1000’ E/W longwire, Grove antenna tuner. <renfrew@localnet.com>

Niel Wolfish, Toronto Ontario, DXing in Coe Hill, Ontario with ICOM R71-A and Wellbrook Large Aperature Loop (a 900 foot longwire was also put up but we never used it).