[IRCA] Kona, Hawaii Ultralight DU's for 12-19

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Asians once again slammed the Pacific island DU's with huge signals from 0830-1030, so apparently this is the usual Kona propagation pattern for December. Japan, Korea and China were all well represented, with several wild and wacky S9+ signals from the likes of 819-Pyongyang, 981-CNR1 and 1440-JOWF. 846 and 1440-Kiribati have delayed their sign off until 1014 the last couple of days, so this may be a new programming change. 1440-Kiribati's sign off was particularly interesting tonight, with JOWF doing its best to hold down the frequency. 621-Tuvalu's garbled audio has become a chronic issue, and no longer seems to be intermittent. Unlike April both of these DU's have trouble holding down their frequencies, and around 1000 Tuvalu's garbled audio was so weak that three different TP's (NHK1, Pyongyang and China) were running all over it, TP mixes were all over the band, with Japan, North Korea and China fighting it out. Recordings have been made of all these mixes but there's no time currently to write up a detailed report and post them. The full report will need to wait until return to Puyallup, I'm afraid. In any case I'll post this one wacky recording of 819-Pyongyang KCBS at 1035 tonight (dedicated to Chris Kadlec), with bizarre female doo-wop music loud enough to wake up the dead  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xd18go0080a8xgnku4fcwf3ug2mcaws0


73 and Good DX,

Gary DeBock (in Kona, Hawaii)

7.5" loopstick CC Skywave +

5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna


 
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