Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

<<< Count your blessings Gary. The "boost to the big guns" here mostly
involved them becoming audible. The idea of 1134 peaking to anything
beyond a grumble in Victoria is strictly for those few mornings when
dozens of Asians are audible, >>>

Actually, except for about 5 peak minutes around 1345 the big guns followed the Victoria script here, as well. The only healthy sounding Asians were 594 and 693, but they fizzled pretty quickly. Their rise from nothing up to S7 levels within about 10 minutes was pretty unusual, though. 1134 is one of the big gun Japanese frequencies here (far enough away from CKWX to escape most of its splatter).

<<< Is 1377 a tough frequency for you? The one (very) bright spot here
this morning was the likely return of RRI Pro 1 from Toli Toli on
that channel, during the pre-sunrise boost. I'll need to check the
files a little more carefully, but almost certain that the vocal
music that was heard matched the webstream through Streema. (every
year, I have to race around to find a working stream for that
station, which seems to only be heard in the couple of weeks around 1 April) >>>

Yes, I remember your reception of that station in March of 2016-- and my reception of a 1377 station at Grayland shortly thereafter on April 1st (which wasn't parallel to either CNR1 or NHK2). Unfortunately my recording had little more than exotic-sounding music. 1377 previously was a pretty noisy frequency in Puyallup, with 1380-KRKO throwing splatter all over the area. It seems quieter now, and maybe worth some detailed checks for anything exotic.

Gary

> On March 23, 2018 at 8:53 AM Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Count your blessings Gary. The "boost to the big guns" here mostly
> involved them becoming audible. The idea of 1134 peaking to anything
> beyond a grumble in Victoria is strictly for those few mornings when
> dozens of Asians are audible,
>
> Is 1377 a tough frequency for you? The one (very) bright spot here
> this morning was the likely return of RRI Pro 1 from Toli Toli on
> that channel, during the pre-sunrise boost. I'll need to check the
> files a little more carefully, but almost certain that the vocal
> music that was heard matched the webstream through Streema. (every
> year, I have to race around to find a working stream for that
> station, which seems to only be heard in the couple of weeks around 1 April)
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
> At 14:46 2018-03-23, Gary DeBock wrote:
> >Of course, Nigel's DU's ignored this pedestrian location on
> >their.way to Alberta this morning (so what else is new?). What
> >seemed like miserable Asian propagation around 1330 improved
> >somewhat with a dramatic daybreak boost to the big guns on 594, 693
> >and 972 around 1345, resulting in overall results similar to
> >yesterday's. 738-BEL2 and 1134-JOQR rode the same sharp boost up to
> >fair peaks around 1348, but none of these signals maintained audio
> >past the 1400 TOH here.
> >
> >
> >Predawn band checks at 1300 and 1330 previewed an apparent clunker
> >session, with ghostly carriers only on 594 and 693. Those Japanese
> >big guns stayed well down in the noise until daybreak around 1335,
> >when both went on potent runs up to S7 levels. 747, 972 and
> >1134-JOQR suddenly appeared with fair audio peaks around 1345, and
> >as KCBS faded around 1348, 738-BEL2's usual lady announcer was
> >strong enough to confirm that her language was Chinese (not
> >Indonesian, or something else). Just when it seemed like the session
> >might turn out to be halfway interesting the propagation reaper took
> >over, dropping the entire collection of Asians back down into the
> >noise by 1400. The high band never seemed to get untracked here, and
> >strong TP audio only lasted for about a minute at a time. Best
> >signal was from 693-JOAB, which reached a very good level with
> >Chinese lessons at 1348.
> >
> >
> >73 and Good DX,
> >
> >Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
> >
> >7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight +
> >
> >15" FSL antenna
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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