Another day ...

Another day in DX paradise, at least for some of us. Not so good cx towards the U.S but Orinoco and Cuban stations had pretty good signals.

 

Cx started again early with some U.S. stations, but signals were considerably weaker than yesterday. WNWC-1190 and WHGT-1590 were noted again but with weaker signals. Night was pretty OK, but we had to get some sleep, so not much to say about cx.

 

In the morning really strong signals (1520-WVOZ, 1250-R Viva, 1190-UCSG R, etc). At 09 UTC some FL-stations (850-WFTL, 1140-WQBA, etc). Then again U.S. with some common stations from MN and westwards. After 12 UTC good cx to Alaska giving us finally 1330-KXXJ with really nice signal.

 

We have completed our second antenna building project and we now have 1000 meter antenna towards South. The difference to antenna towards the North is huge. Hopefully we will get a chance to test it with good cx to Africa. So far no such cx.

 

We came up with an old LURX scrapbook and found this unique photo, but we are not sure about what this picture presents. Could it be;

 

a)      The military wing of Team LURX was condemned in the Great Team Work Trial of SDXL. Captain Morgan with his sunglasses on the left, General Electric in his military uniform on the right, Major Storm in the middle (again fallen in sleep with headphones on).

b)      Perscheus-wideband receiver (developed by German engineers) charmed already in the 1940’s: even the head officers of the state were hooked on listening to these magic recordings, even at work and even when it seemed obvious that they were loosing their jobs. After the war every single unit of Perscheus-receivers were destroyed so that mankind would never face again all the suffering caused by them.

Maybe we should get some more sleep again …