[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 15 October 2016

[Nigel Pimblett <nige2730@xxxxxxxxx>]

   The end results as listed below are quite typical, but the route to 
get there was remarkable this morning.  When I first checked the dials 
just before 1300 it was if someone had stolen my antenna in the night. 
Not only were the TPs missing, so were most of the domestic stations. 
I'd say at least 2/3 of the domestic channels were empty.  After 
checking my antenna connections I checked the 1200 recording, and I was 
getting signals then, so evidently it was a blackout caused by solar 
shenanigans of some sort.  After about 15 minutes things starting coming 
back, and I wound up with a lot of DU carriers, and some audio, 
including Newstalk ZB at its best level of the season.  I'm sure my 
recording has a few other snippets of audio, but I don't have time to 
check it today, as the job has me back on the road today.  Interestingly 
the DU signals seemed to recover from the disturbance more rapidly than 
the North American ones.



774	3LO	Melbourne, AUSTRALIA	Talk by man at 1345

792	4RN	Brisbane, AUSTRALIA	Bits of music at 1348

1035	Newstalk ZB	Wellington, NEW ZEALAND   Briefly up to good level with 
phone number and "Newstalk ZB" ID at 1340.

1107	unID		Traces of audio at 1341

1116   4BC    Brisbane, AUSTRALIA    Usual talk programming with man 
talking at 1338.

1251	Radio Rhema	NEW ZEALAND	Presumed the one with Christian music at 1340.



73,


Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array
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