Re: [IRCA] TP or lack thereof

[Nigel Pimblett <ntp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With the solar activity, and some auroral-style reception I was noting 
last night, I wasn't surprised at a total lack of TPs here this 
morning.   Did have a lot of DU carriers, though only 5 produced any 
sort of audio.  Like Nick I noted the off-channel signal on 774.   
Inspired by Nick's presentation at Seaside I'd downloaded Spectran, and 
have been playing with it a bit.  Running the audio on it showed that 
the two signals were about equal in strength.  Both were much better on 
my DU beverage than my Asiatic antenna.

73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta


Nick Hall-Patch wrote:

>Started listening just after 1400 to a few carriers only, then 
>discovered that I had a bad coax on the Flag input to the 
>receiver.  So really only listened from about 1420 on.  Audio on 567 
>and 774 likely Australia, but too weak to tell for sure.  Also 774 
>suffered from a huge het about 137 Hertz high from the dominant 
>signal, sometimes near dominant itself, but any audio seemed to sound 
>more like jamming, a sort of propellor sound.  This was heard only on 
>the westerly Flag, so likely not Asiatic?
>
>  At 1448UT, down under EE talk by man is dominant, perhaps the best 
>level this morning.   Talk included the phrase "I never promised you 
>a rose garden" repeated a couple of times; without the accompanying 
>song, I guess it could have been EE lessons on NHK.  Nothing else was 
>in audio at the time, and what direction finding I could get 
>indicated a more northwesterly arrival.
>
>best wishes,
>
>Nick
>
>
>
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