Winter Skip Downunder (Band 1 DX)

[dxer2_2000]

Hi all

July 18th winter Es. 12:40 - 15:10 AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Receiver: ICOM R-7100

New Zealand
Ch1 offsets - 45.24, 45.25, 45.26, 45.27 Mhz
Ch2 offsets - 55.24 Mhz
Ch3 offsets - 62.24 Mhz

Queensland (S* = S meter reading)
40.68 Mhz pagers (S3)
Ch0 - 46.172 Toowoomba (almost S10 level)
Ch1 - 57.25 Bowen
Ch1 - 57.26 Warwick (S6)
Ch2 - 64.24 Brisbane (Noted under local Ch2 in SSB only)
50.058 Gold Coast 6m Beacon

New South Wales
Ch0 - 46.26 Tamworth NSW (S2) (100watt translator) rare catch in winter
Ch2 - 64.26 Grafton NSW strong (Noted under local Ch2 in SSB only)

dxer2_2000

 

[Grrrradio]

Thanks for the info -- always good to hear how signals behave in other parts of the world!

My curiosity has a numerical dimension as well... so any chance you could provide approximate distances on those skips? (As an American, I have some gaps in my knowledge of world geography, because the schools here are too busy engaged in modifying our self-esteem, medicating so-called hyperactive troublemakers, and all in all attempting to engineer perfect little corporate worker bees. ;D)

By the way... in case ya didn't know... you Down Under DXers are more than lucky to have broadcast services all the way down at 46 MHz... since skip and tropo start at the bottom of VHF-land and only move upward if and as they strengthen.