From: "Neil Kazaross" Subject: Quick Summary of the best from Newfie 8 DXpedition Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:44:36 -0500 Just back from "BeachBeverage Newfoundland" and here's a quick summary of the best during the week from 17-24 OCT. Conditions were usually auroral. 530 Falklands Islands... Yes this now has been heard in North America !!.. Some nights they'd occasionally be way behind Turks & Caicos and once and a while clear // audio to BBCWS 6175 would be heard. Phasing helped a bit at times. 531, 873, 972, 1215 Botswana here .. 972 is easy .. all in // 1485 Ascension Is.. as always not too hard to hear as the Bev's toward Brazil take out Spain pretty well... unfortunately.. try as we did we couldn't hear St. Helena 1548 // 11092.5' s DX special. The SW sounded like a local. Jean does have 1548 QSL'ed however.. in similar auroral conditions which killed Britain/Kuwait. 1206 Mozambique: we have a nice tape of ID as Emissora Provincial do Inhambane... also an unlisted Mozambique stn on 963 is taped with an ID where we just can't copy the province name. 1529.6 Uruguay.. we were happy to log a nice R.Independencia ID from this 250 watter. Many stronger Argentines, Uruguayans and Paraguayans were heard as well. Of course the entire dial was full of Brazilians at sunset as always on our 1 km long Brazil Bev. (As an example.. Fortaleza on 930 over/under local (100 km north) CJYQ in St. John's) Many of these stations are dominant all night. Due to auroral conditions nothing much farther east than UAE 1476 // 13675 was heard on the 450 meter TA Bev. Our African receptions were helped by a new 390 meter Bev just to the east of our long Brazil Bev. This wire (due to length has a wider beam than the Brazil Bev) and thus received some Africans better while displaying a very useful null of Euro QRM in the range on 800-1000. Thus 846 from South Africa was listenable most of the time with no QRM from Rome. The uncrowded dial combined with great receivers like the AR7030+ and the R8A coupled to good beach Bev's provides DX conditions that are unobtainable here in the USA. I heard some great stuff from the Maine coast from 1981-1983.. but it can't compare to Newfoundland. ... 73's KAZ (back in reality.. from DX paradise)