The RSG via Meyerton, South Africa on 3320 has been very strong and clear reception the past two local evenings here in the N. Mojave Desert--and DF bearings made via the loopstick antenna atop my Benmar Navigator 555A point roughly 70 deg. azimuth bearing quite clearly (the relatively easy DF-nulls indicating low-angle skip too). This has been between 0100 to past 0400 UT - both 12 and 13 March. Last night the huge QRN crashes buried them and the good music and announcements in Afrikans - a really interesting-sounding language that (to me) if I'm not fully paying attention, it sounds like a strange dialect of English until I concentrate and see it sounds much Dutch-like, of course.
If I turn back on the radio(s) left on the 3320 RSG the evening before by pre-dawn here, it then is the DPRK's KCBS with a lot of choral-marshall music and strident ranting (not usually // 2850 lately).
Back some years ago, I really enjoyed the very-strong gray-line (at local Hawaiian evenings) antipodal reception of the SABC 4880 when I was in Hawaii in the late 80s (Botswana on 4820 also). Great DJs/music in EE on the SABC and a lot of local pop-music with African flavors too! Perfectly listenable on my various portables with whips as I lava-hiked and walked or just watched the surf.
I think I DX while walking more than at home, these days, weather permitting-hi. Away from man-made noise, a humble telescoping-whip has a superior S/N ratio and thus reception "way out there" in the wide open can be remarkable. Conversely, SW reception on portable radios INSIDE my PseudoFaraday-Shield house with just a whip is nearly hopeless, unless super strong.
73 - Steve McGreevy - 13 March 2019 - Keeler, CA - n. Mojave
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