Re: [IRCA] TPs on August 30: Unstable Wonderfulness

["CHARLES HUTTON" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Your season is off to a good start and that bodes well for those of us that 
haven't gotten things cranked up yet. I do plan to catch up soon.....

BTW, I believe the CC on 1008 is CNR1, although I have no idea where the 
xmrtrs are. I've heard the classic satellite delay on CC audio here, which 
is why I guess it is CNR1. I've never listened across the hour when they 
were in (not so often at all) so have no ID to prove it.


Chuck


>From: "John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: [IRCA] TPs on August 30: Unstable Wonderfulness
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:50:47 -0700
>
>Got up a little after 4:30AM local this morning.... you know us old guys.
>
>Anyway there were already some pretty decent Asian signals about,
>even though it was two hours before local dawn here. Things really
>heated up in that second hour, 1230 to 1325UTC.  However, the
>conditions were quite unstable..  Things would peak up to very good
>levels for ten minutes or so and then be way down ten minutes later
>on recheck. I had TP hets at least at some point on 80 different
>channels, about the most ever for this location, and certainly a
>record for August (and September too, for that matter.) Of those 80,
>I heard at least threshold audio on almost half (37) but only 14 were
>in listenable audio.... where I could distinguish the language and
>hear individual words (or better.) You can see that I had an awful
>lot of low-level audio.
>
>The most notable loggings:
>
>567 JOIK NHK-1 Sapporo  We hear this one at Grayland relatively
>regularly, but I don't think that I've ever had audio here, before.
>Decent audio early... the first 150 kHz of MW are an RF jungle here
>on Orcas Island, thanks to the Vancouver, BC and Blaine, WA stations
>that are 30 km across an all salt water path..
>
>756 JOQK NHK-1 Kumamoto in low level audio for a first-ever logging
>here.  We hear them semi-often at Grayland
>
>774 JOUB NHK-2 Akita. This is the most regular of the Japanese Big
>Guns, but for a while it was running louder than I've ever heard it
>here and maybe at Grayland.  Measured at various times S-9 + 10 dB or
>-61 dBm... also measured at 75 microvolts. WOW!
>
>891 JOHK NHK-1 Sendai. This is fairly rare in audio at Grayland and
>unheard here previously, I think. Here for a while in low but
>identifiable audio.
>
>963  The Chinese Nat Radio Russian Service has been doing quite well
>the last couple of weeks, but I've never heard it at well over S-9
>before, even a Grayland.
>
>972  HLCA, Dangjin, South Korea. This is the mid-band Korean Big Gun
>here, but I've noticed that it doesn't seem to be doing as well this
>fall as in previous falls.  Then, the last three mornings, their
>modulation seemed to be way low. This morning, the carrier was almost
>S-9 and the audio, if it was them, was just at threshold.  It could
>have been that they were totally Open Carrier and I was hearing some
>other Asian behind them.  Serious trouble, in any case.
>
>1008 UnID Chinese station here in Standard CC.  There are multiple
>locations listed for this in PAL. Absolutely not the more normal
>JONR. First time for me either here or at Grayland.  Will watch this
>like a hawk.
>
>1053 Like 972, the Korean jammer on 1053 seems to be having
>modulation trouble.  Yesterday, had a fairly good signal, but no
>jamming sounds at all, just OC. Today, had very good signal but very
>faint jamming audio.  No sign of the JJ station that is normally
>beneath the jamming from this perspective.
>
>"1206" The Chinese Korean-language service from just northwest of
>Pyongyang has been doing quite well these last couple of weeks. FOR
>THE PAST WEEK IT HAS BEEN ON 1205.98.... solid as a rock.  This is a
>strong enough station that at least the carrier might be notable over
>a wide area, especially while it is off-channel.
>
>Needless to say, my new "super-size" 65' x 100' EWE pointed at East
>Asia, up the Gulf of Georgia from Orcas Island, is working pretty
>well, despite having only minimal grounding yet.  This weekend will
>change that.... Also, the WinRadio 313e is a marvelous DX
>instrument... and the active scope in the 313's GUI makes seeing
>off-channel stations VERY easy.
>
>Whadda morning!
>
>John Bryant
>Orcas Island, WA
>
>
>
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