Re: [IRCA] TP DX Report March 29 Rockaway Beach

[Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, at least into Masset, the bands are devoid of any daytime signals
from Spring to early Fall, except for 860 CBC Prince Rupert and KTKN 930.
Even on this trip from 16:00 or so until our local sunset, the AM band was
pretty silent. A big difference from my last visit in January.  Winter is
another story of course!  73, Walt

On Friday, March 31, 2017, Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And one more data point Mark....at PEI early last November, we tried
> chasing down trans-Pacifics at local sunrise.   A big problem was various
> primarily British signals still occupying the 9kHz channels, not strongly,
> but delivering audio; signals travelling across the pond from the
> transmitter in broad daylight. Those didn't quit until nearly 20 minutes
> after local sunrise in PEI.
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> At 16:51 31-03-17, Mark Connelly via IRCA wrote:
>
> Australia 1548 in at Nick's end 3 hours after sunrise is kind of like the
>> mirror image of what happens here on the East Coast with some TA stations
>> coming in 3 or more hours before sunset at shore sites.
>>
>> In the NOV/DEC stretch several years back, Saudi Arabia 1521 was received
>> at East Harwich, MA at 1 p.m. EST / 1800 UTC and on another occasion right
>> here in South Yarmouth (former QTH of Chris Black, N1CP) with carrier at
>> 1730 UTC, good audio by 1800.  Earliest Cape Cod sunset is 4:10 p.m. EST /
>> 2110 UTC.
>>
>> The extreme case is Cappahayden, Newfoundland where the old Norway 1314
>> blaster was audible all day on skip in late autumn.  Of course that's
>> dealing with much less distance (and more power) than TP routes from most
>> of western North America.
>>
>> It does say that quite a bit of a path can be in daylight while some
>> degree of skywave propagation is supported.
>>
>> Azores 693, another now-silent TA, was all day to Cappahayden but that
>> was actually GROUNDWAVE (about 1240 miles / 2000 km), a similar distance to
>> the Turks and Caicos to West Dennis Beach, MA reliable-groundwave run
>> enjoyed in 530's high power days.
>>
>> I wonder if any Asians make it Alaska or Hawaii via groundwave.
>>
>> Of course a chunk of Alaska has "all day" skip reception during its
>> lengthy winter when the sun barely gets above the horizon.
>>
>> Mark Connelly, WA1ION
>> South Yarmouth, MA
>>
>> <<
>> A belated thank you to Craig and Walt for their DXpedition reports
>> for this date. I'll round it out with a report from Tofino
>> BC, using a NetSDR and ALA100 pair.
>>
>> First noted Tonga with quite a good signal, island music and talk
>> before 0600UT.
>>
>> Then, after 1300UT quite a lot of Japanese, including NHK1 on 946 and
>> NHK2 on 1386 in addition to the larger guns, but 1593 was CNR1, and
>> maybe Tagalog on 837, and Korean on 657....then there were commercial
>> Japanese such as 1242 1314 1332 1179 954 918 etc. In addition,
>> there was a preacher on 1611, but couldn't hear anything definite
>> for // on 1629; just a rumble. This all lasted until about 1400UT,
>> when all Asians, except the big guns, wandered off, leaving a number
>> of down unders, and by 1440UT, it was all down under, most not too
>> strong, but some of which just wouldn't quit.
>>
>> DUs continued popping up erratically until well after 1530UT; figured
>> that everything was over by 1550UT, but no, 1116, 1548 were still
>> there, just not regularly, but heck , 1548 particularly just wouldn't
>> go; at 1631UT, it was as strong as the 1550 domestics (admittedly,
>> not strong there), and finally sailed away, I think, at 1700UT with
>> the ABC news fanfare heard weakly, three hours after local sunrise,
>> with the terminator out past Hawaii by this time.
>>
>> So, actually, not a bad morning. I'm surprised that DUs didn't make
>> more of an appearance at Rockaway judging by that
>> performance. However, they weren't really pounding in, and domestic
>> interference after sunrise is fairly weak at Tofino, so it might have
>> been a signal to interference issue, plus equipment difference.
>>
>>
>> best wishes,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> At 15:11 29-03-17, Donald Barnes via IRCA wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >Thankfully, this morning exhibited a bit of an uptick in propagation
>> >conditions. Japan remained the star of the show. I listened from
>> >1320 until about 1500.
>> >
>> >567 JOIK (I think) with weak audio male and female speaking in presumed
>> JJ
>> >
>> >594 JOAK with weak audio and male speaking
>> >
>> >693 JOAB weak audio with deep fades, female speaking
>> >
>> >747 JOIB weak audio, man speaking
>> >
>> >774 JOUB booming in with EE lesson, male and female conducting lesson
>> >
>> >828 JOBB with male and female conducting EE lesson at decent signal
>> levels
>> >
>> >1566 HLAZ with hymns, decent signal on peaks
>> >
>> >Asian hets were received on 558, 639, 702, 738, 972, 981, 1089, 1179 and
>> 1242
>> >
>> >DU hets were received on 612, 702, 891 and 1548
>> >
>> >Time to head back to Colorado and look forward to Hawaii next month.
>> >Meeting Gary DeBock and discussing radios, antennas and DX remains
>> >one of the highlights of the trip!
>> >
>> >73 & Best of DX
>> >
>> >Craig Barnes
>> >Tecsun PL-310, 3.5 in FSL
>> >Rockaway Beach
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Nick Hall-Patch
>> Victoria, BC
>> Canada
>> >>
>>
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