The Early Days of DX

Our grandfather Arthur Lurx is widely known as the pioneer of DXing. In the early DXpeditions of the 1920's there were no switchboxes available for antenna selection so he had to use extra work force for quick switching between different antennas. More info about Arthur and the background of LURX can be found here.

PS. Alabama 1070 heard on LEM286 !

Minnesota Hotspot

Day 10 was full of action. It started with NL & ON, but the highlight of the day was DXing with a new style: next MN - next MN - next MN - next MN. Well, there was some SD included but we haven't experienced such a tight regional Minnesota cx before. KDIO, WCMP, WZFG, KSDN, KOKK, KSDR, KROX, KBRF, KVKK, KQAQ (superpower), KJJK and many more.

Still Alive

Day 9 offered stations like KYW, WNED, WHRC, CBY and WARV - these describe the direction of the conditions. Better this way than ylämummo and we definitely have many iPods.

Last evening WBIX already at 2100 UTC with many other promising signals, later at least KGFX and WPNW with strong signals. Now the morning session has started with opening to Cuba and the East Coast.

UNID 1300 - Solved !

We heard this one yesterday around 2200 UTC. Even though our combined DX experience is way beyond 100 years, we had real difficulties in identifying this (our whole team spent more than 3 hours and it seems that we lost some daytimers because we were so concentrated in solving this). After a careful study and numerous replays we found out that the announcer probably mentions "WOOD" twice (at 00:05 on the clip) so it seems obvious that this is just Newsradio WOOD 1300 from Grand Rapids MI.

Greetings to KEIN Great Falls, MT

Some stations just do not reply to reception reports. It has been painstaking to notice that sometimes we don't get what we want in spite of how hard we try. QSL's can be regarded as valuable "collector's items" but sometimes it also works the other way round. This picture shows the board of directors of KEIN Great Falls MT proudly presenting their collection of JHU's reception reports and follow-up's. They started collecting them in the late 1980's and they are eagerly waiting for the next score every month. We have good news for them: they'll get one from LEM286, too, followed by several f-ups in 2010. They are very proud of their collection and would like to score way beyond 1000 reports. This is already the largest genuine "JHU Collection" in USA.

Identification Day

The 6th of December is the National Identification Day of Finland so the high-ranking officers of the LURX Military Wing (Captain Morgan - JHU, Major Storm - IPA and General Electric - RS) welcomed the parade of stations passing by:

KRLDCFACKRNTKUBRKOKKWDAYWBAPWLSWTCMWWJWWKBKOZ
YKNOXCFMBWXYTKCTAKWYRKFNWWYLLKOLMWRIGKLIZCFRB
CFMJCHCMCFZMCBGACJVAWNAXCFRACKGACBYCBNACKCMKM
ONCINFCHMLXEWWWGRCBEFKGYNKCHAWBIZKMAKVGBKSENK
FBKKXTLKDUZKVANKKOLKVNSCJVBKLINWLCMCKPCWGIVVO
ARCFAVKQDS...

The time is now 16 UTC and the march still goes on.

Hectic Times

Day 7 was the best so far - lots of interesting NA stations from the East Coast and the Great Lakes starting from 21 UTC. Haven't had much time to confirm the best ones. Today we had a long visit to Inari and now we are ready to take what we are given next week.

During the day we faced another obstacle and we lost yet another piece of cabin (fixing the door took surprisingly long time).