Re: [IRCA] Dare I Say Mid-Winter Anomaly??

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mid-winter anomaly? It depends on where you are.  Chuck and I were at 
Grayland this weekend.  It wasn't the exactly best I've ever seen there, 
but it wasn't the worst either.

Between the two nights, we had audio on maybe 70-80 channels.  Japan was 
quite poor both nights.  I think we could count the JO's heard on both 
hands with a couple fingers left over.  The Korean peninsula was limited 
to the usual powerhouses.  Alaskans were about average.  Chinese 
stations were abundant.  Several Russians were heard on longwave this 
morning, and I think I had 648, but that was it.  SE Asia was limited to 
1575, tentative Vietnam 1242, and a weak 1475.

There was a decent low band DU opening Saturday morning, comprised 
mostly of the usual suspects.  Pacific Island stations were good at 
their local sunset Friday night/Sat AM.  Nada for DUs this morning.

This morning's Far East opening was mostly on low band as well.  The 
only reliable signal above 1200 was HLAZ-1566.  A few others, even 
powerhouses like 1287 1323 and 1575, would sometimes pop up like prairie 
dogs, hang around for a couple minutes, and then dive back into their 
holes.

On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is hearing only the local groundwave signals 
and 10 is hearing Bangladesh-693 wipe out CBU with splatter, I'd give it 
about a 5.

There were several interesting unid Chinese stations: 918 was good much 
of the time and often had an echo, and it wasn't //either CNR network, 
something under N Korea 657 for a while this morning, another under 
Japan 594 yesterday, another mixing with Japan 1287, another with a 
phone in show on 1125 sometimes quite good, someone with a minority 
language on 1098, others on 828 603 585, and probably a few more I'll 
remember after I hit the send button. 

621 was interesting this AM with N Korea, a Chinese station I think IDed 
as Heilongjiang, and a weaker third station with sedate music. Others 
Chinese heard: Beijing RGD ID on 1026, CNR on 756 639 945 981 999 1008 
et al, CRI on 1044 1323 & 963. 

The fat lady ain't singing at Grayland just yet, though she might be 
searching for her sheet music.

Bruce


John H. Bryant wrote:
> Another disappointing morning for TPs..... if this is the start of 
> the MWA, we can hardly complain, since the season started a full 
> month earlier than last year.  Nevertheless, this morning was pretty 
> much of a bummer. My first run was 90 minutes before dawn and there 
> were a dozen threshold audios, but nothing really listenable at all. 
> It was the usual suspects.  Dawn brought very little improvement, 
> really.  I had very listenable audio on 774 and 828 NHK2s as they 
> signed off and a number of the Manchurian transmitters (945 
> particularly) had improved a decent amount, showing at least 
> threshold audio.  All in all, very disappointing.  Yes, I dated her, 
> too, and her name was Gladys!
>
> Hava nice Sunday!
>
> John B.
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