{"id":31652,"date":"2018-04-17T07:13:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31652"},"modified":"2018-04-17T07:13:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:13:28","slug":"a-taste-of-gary-debocks-cook-islands-aitutaki-ultralight-dxpedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-taste-of-gary-debocks-cook-islands-aitutaki-ultralight-dxpedition\/","title":{"rendered":"A taste of Gary DeBock’s Cook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight DXpedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares the following notes from his Cook Islands Ultralight DXpedition:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight DXpedition from April 8-13<\/h2>\n

A gorgeous environment, with thrilling long range DX! Ruth and I took this trip as the 38th anniversary of out first meeting at Victoria Peak in Hong Kong (April 10, 1980).<\/p>\n

DXing highlights were the reception of 693-Bangladesh, 918-Cambodia and 1431-Mongolia on the 7.5 inch loopstick C.Crane Skywave SSB<\/a> Ultralight and 5 inch “Frequent Flyer” FSL antenna<\/a> (designed to provide inductive coupling gain equal to that of a 4 foot air core box loop, but in a much more compact size).<\/p>\n

693-Bangladesh<\/strong> 1652 UTC April 10 (mention of Bangladesh at 8 second point; thanks to Chuck Hutton for listening):<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/693-Bangladesh-1652z041018CCSWANR.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Download: 693-Bangladesh-1652z041018CCSWANR<\/a><\/p>\n

918-Cambodia<\/strong> 1659 UTC April 12 (Khmer female speech, National Anthem with “Cuckoo Clock” time pips at 1:41; thanks to Hiroyuki Okamura for listening):<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/918-Cambodia-1659z041218CCSWANR.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Download: 918-Cambodia-1659z041218CCSWANR<\/a><\/p>\n

1431-Mongolia<\/strong> 1631 UTC April 11 (BBC Korean service interval signal at 46 seconds; thanks to Hiroyuki Okamura for listening):<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1431-Mongolia-1631z041118CCSW.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Download: 1431-Mongolia-1631z041118CCSW<\/a><\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Tamanu Beach Resort ocean shore, Aitutaki, Cook Islands (in the South Pacific)<\/p>\n

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Amazing catches, Gary–thank you for sharing! It seems your modified CC Skywave SSB is serving you well. Looks like you were chasing amazing DX from an amazing part of our planet!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares the following notes from his Cook Islands Ultralight DXpedition: Cook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight DXpedition from April 8-13 A gorgeous environment, with thrilling long range DX! Ruth and I took this trip as the 38th anniversary of out first meeting at Victoria Peak in Hong Kong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,399,433,3,26,43,3727],"tags":[318,6398,6397,4664,6745,4661,3732,6980],"class_list":["post-31652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-dxpeditions","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-ultralight-dx","tag-c-crane","tag-c-crane-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-cc-skywave-ssb","tag-ferrite-sleeve-loopstick","tag-frequent-flyer-fsl-antenna","tag-gary-debock","tag-gary-debock-ultralight-radio","tag-ultralight-dxpedition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8ew","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31799,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/gary-debock-shares-most-distant-catch-from-cook-island-dxpedition\/","url_meta":{"origin":31652,"position":0},"title":"Gary DeBock shares most distant catch from Cook Island DXpedition","author":"Thomas","date":"April 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gary DeBock, who shares the following note about his recent\u00a0Cook Island DXpedition: The farthest DX received during the Cook Island DXpedition (on Aitutaki island) was 657-All India Radio in Kolkata, India, at 8,072 miles (12,991 km). 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