KNL-15 DXpedition (7-11 February 2025)

With some delay, here is the report from our latest DX-pedition to Knollehof in Veurne, Belgium. 

We started on Friday the 7th. Weather was fine and putting up the antennas was going fine, also because we had an hour extra of daylight compared to last December.  All antennas were up and running on day one. BTW, Martin Hall's trick to use a 9V battery+ LED to measure continuity of the beverages was very helpful. 

Continuity test of the Beverage 

We had just like the previous edition a beverage to North-America (300°), a BoG to Africa (150°) a reversible 2 wire beverage to Japan/Argentina (45/225°) and Far East/Colombia (80/260°). Other antennas could be spotted like Jan's Vertical 9,- m, LZ1AQ, KAZ and Van Dijken LA1, Leen's Vertical 7,- m, T2FD for 13 MHz and inverted V for 9 MHz and higher and Frank Huyghe's Sony AN1.

The crew was exactly the same as in December. 

Medium Wave conditions target seems to focus still more or less on South America. Far-East was almost completely dead and we heard also a few Africans but not the hoped South Africans stations. Signals were clearly better than the previous stay there but not yet as we would like to see it. 

We were also suffering from QRM from PSU's and HDD's that we could reduce for some part but not efficient enough. Plans are made to pinpoint this in much more detail next time. 

Attempting to reduce QRM from the ext HD by
covering it in Alu foil. It helped but not enough

The night of the 9th was focusing on Argentina and Brazil and the10th was the better one for North-America. Strange was that the 11th North America was also quite good on the ARG-antenna. Propagation will stay a mystery for ever I suppose. 

But sometimes, DX signals haven't to be the most exotic to be interesting. Take for example this interesting announcement from VOCM seeking for a new Broadcast technician. Somebody here might be interested. 

Guido Schotmans · VOCM Saint John's NL 590U 2025-02-11 02'02'17 KNL

A full MW-log report be extracted from https://dxing.fi/log/ by Logging in with your MWList credentials, selecting Listening date from 7 to 11 February and select BEL as logging country.

Our Knollehof DXped First logs for this edition.

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