Re: [IRCA] Try Sleep Deprivation: TPs for 10/29

["Bill Block" <billwblock@xxxxxxx>]

John

Here in Arizona I don't get any TP reception until one hour before LSR.



Bill Block
Prescott Valley, AZ




>From: "John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>CC: hcones@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [IRCA] Try Sleep Deprivation: TPs for 10/29
>Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:27:08 -0800
>
>I've become more and more curious about the excellent TP reception
>that I've been experiencing when I'm up 90 minutes or more before
>dawn.... more than 30 minutes before First Light.  I don't think that
>I completely understand Nick's explanation of this propagation that
>he uploaded yesterday, but I decided to try REALLY early this AM. My
>first sweep was three hours before LSR at 1154 UTC turn-on. The lower
>half of the dial was FULL! From the bottom of the dial until 1161, I
>had substantial carriers or audio on every single split except 549
>and 1125!!!! Of those same channels, 41were in audio, with the vast
>majority being in listenable audio. By and large, Japan was strongly
>favored, with the 702 NHK-2 synchros in (rarely heard here) along
>with 729 JOCK, also not a normal visitor. JOUK on 612 was there, and
>there were some nice Chinese around, too, including 621 Heilongjiang
>and several of the low band CNR1s.
>
>When first light and then max dawn arrived, those channels below 1130
>were ALL down quite a bit, except JOKR on 954 which always seems to
>peak late.  Of the few remaining real audios, the Chinese seemed to
>suffer the least damage. In fact, 774 Japan had dropped so low that
>China was dominating part of the time there. I wonder if this
>hyper-early opening is a high-latitude thing, only????  I wonder if
>Nigel P. has ever tried this late in the season at 2 or three hours
>before LSR??? How 'bout Bill B. in Prescott?? Surely some other old
>duffer out there needs Flomax??????
>
>Gee, for those of us with, ahem, reason to get up early, it sure was
>a swell morning!
>
>John B.
>
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