[IRCA] Great LowBand Morning

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First morning DXing back home and it was a good one.  Wish that I'd 
gotten up at regular time, but the rack was warm and I didn't hit the 
dials until 45 minutes before sunrise.... 1405 UTC.  The low band was 
just about as good as I've ever seen it from here and China/some 
Koreans were favored over the Japanese... who were doing fairly well 
themselves.  High band above 1200 was just fair, for some reason.

Some of the better loggings: 621 Heilonjiang doing well, 675 Hanoi 
was the best of the season, so far... very good at times, I had TP 
audio on both 719.844 and 720... KCBS and CNR, 738 almost 
certainly//1143 Taiwan Fisheries.  Both were in well at times, but 
never both good at same time... when one was good and the other poor, 
they seemed in // (??), 774 and 828 were both unlistenable at times 
with the CHinese signals being at last equal with the very strong 
JJs. I swear that there were at least four separate echos on CNR2. It 
sounded like shouting down a verrry deep well. After dawn, I noted 
738 had become KBS and was // to 756.  I also had the first audio in 
quite a while out of 1557, presumed WYFR.  The most interesting 
semi-logging was Japanese on 702.  There are two moderate-size NHK2s 
there, but this JJ was not // either NHK Service.  I'm "almost 
certain" its an unlisted JJ Service from either the Koreas or 
China.  I think that I'll send a recording and an inquiry to the 
Chinese.  Well after LSR, 702 was // to NHK2.  Hummmmmm.

Lastly, the band stayed in for at least an hour past dawn..... my 
stomach and bladder finally forced me to quit.  However, as I type 
this at almost 11AM, I've still got a het on 1566. 774 lasted as a 
het until 10:40AM (1740 UT) and then was finally gone.  HLAZ presumed 
is beginning to disappear briefly before fighting its way back. If it 
will just hang in a few more minutes, I will have had it last until 
noon, local standard time!!!

Can't wait to hear what Patrick vacuumed up.....

John B.
P.S.
To Guy and others with a new Eton E-1, it is possible to overload 
that puppy.  When I turned it on this AM, I accidentally had 20 dB of 
outboard RF amplifier, and the E-1s own pre-amp on... and everything 
was hooked to my 65' x 100' EWE pointed at a huge number of 
Vancouver's 50 kW stations, 20 sea miles away!!!  Seemed like I had 
four or five distorted signals mixing alllll over the dial.  When I 
turned off alla the extra RF amps, the E-1 became the DXing 
sweetheart that it really is............

  

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