John, if my calculations were correct, I should have heard the broadcasts at 11:oo pm CDT.(Texas time) But when Bob Harmon posted his message that he was listening, it was just after 10:00pm CDT (I think he is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which is CDT) I don't know if I was an hour late or what. Can someone explain?
Are they going to continue broadcasts for another several days?
Jim S.
There seems to be a lot of confusion here and it doesn't seem to be getting cleared up, so let me see if I can help.
I'm located in Springfield, MO, so I'm on Central Daylight Time.
According to the information here:
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Niku8/dailies/niku8dailies.html#n611, Lee would be on the 20 meter band, between 14.280 Mhz and 14.310 Mhz, at 04:00 GMT (GMT is the 'old' name. Now it's called UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)).
04:00 GMT (UTC) is the same as 11:00 pm Central Daylight Time, 12:00 Midnight Eastern Daylight Time, 10:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time, and 9:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Last night (6-13-15, in Missouri), I was able to hear Lee on 14.295 Mhz, SSB, at between about 11:00 pm to 11:30 pm, Central Daylight Time. I had to run a service call (I work on commercial communications systems for a living) and I have an HF transceiver in my truck. I tried working him, but could not, although I could hear him. There were a LOT of other stations attempting to work him, too, with much stronger signals into Nikumaroro, which covered me up completely. I'm sure that many of those other stations were running a lot of transmitter power, at least 1000 watts, and probably more. My HF transceiver runs a maximum of 100 watts. The propagation just wasn't very good, either, between my location and Nikumaroro, although it seemed to be improving slightly, as the time neared 11:30 pm CDT (which is when I reached my destination and had to leave the radio). On an RS scale (Readability and Signal Strength, from 1 to 9, weakest to strongest), I would have given him a report of 54 to 55, with quite a bit of static on my end.
Lee stated that, currently, he's limited to the 20 meter band (14 Mhz), but that he plans on getting up antennas for the 75 meter band (3.5 to 4.0 Mhz) and the 40 meter band (7.0 to 7.3 Mhz) sometime over the next few days.
John - W0PM
Springfield, MO