Re: [IRCA] TPs for Tuesday, Nov. 6: Really Good Morning!!

["Donald K. Kaskey" <kaskeyfamily@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great stuff John.  I have a tape (about 30 years old) of KDWN-720 making an ID under the very dominant Chinese station and I've heard JOUB-770 (again 30 years ago) so loud you'd think it was a
local but the other catches you list are truly mouth watering.  Maybe in my next life I'll be reincarnated in Seaside OR or up a bit on the coast of Washington or British Columbia.  One never
knows.

Don




"John H. Bryant" wrote:

> Man, this hobby is beguiling...
>
> Yesterday, most of my TP compatriots were waxing poetic about the
> wonderful morning and mine was good but nothing really to write home
> about.  This morning, most folks reporting so far are describing a
> mediocre morning and I had the best one that I've had in three weeks or so.
>
> I was at the dials two hours before dawn, again (LSR=1506) and the
> band was jumping.  1300-1330 was almost exclusively JJs , with quite
> a bit of audio.  Dawn was a disappointment for most of the JJs who
> were either weaker or gone completely. A few of the JJs stayed in and
> even got a good bit stronger, especially very late.... but most were
> poorer at dawn.
>
> The Chinese and a number of other strange things started getting good
> about 1400 and most continued to get a bit better over time. Dawn
> enhancement for me lasted a full 30 minutes after dawn... much later
> than usual, as Walt also noted.
>
> The interesting things:
>
> 720 is KDWN, in Nevada... but by dawn enhancement that isn't a
> problem here... and its completely gone with he Wellbrook... so 720
> is my only truly open frequency that contains both NAM ands Int'l
> stations.  I've been watching it like a hawk for Kotzebue Alaska or
> anything TP.... Nothing all season until this morning when it was
> Pyongyang Bangsong at a very low level of audio. They either have a
> really directional antenna or a very sick transmitter on 720.
>
> 774 Japan was just HUGE at 1300.... could literally charge batteries
> with that signal
>
> 810 was R. Rossii// a much attenuated 279.... 810 was ever so much better.
>
> 837 Harbin was HUGE late... 1515 or so... barely there an hour earlier.
>
> 864 I swear that there was an OC here at good level for quite a while
> early. Later, I got the very low level audio that I've long been curious about.
>
> 891 was Thailand doing well in the middle of dawn
>
> 836 Anhui hasn't been the arm chair copy this season that it has been
> the past two, but it was doing great this morning.
>
> 945 CNR1 was great at 1300, sorta down at 1400 and HUGE at 1500... go
> figure.  KJR 950 slop was horrible this morning until they switched
> to their day pattern which points a bit away from me.  Made a real
> difference.  That Day/Night pattern shift may be why I've always
> gotten 954 Japan much better late and hardly at all early. Gee, how
> many years did it take for me to figure that out?
>
> 1062 was HLKQ late.... expecting the Filipino here. Hummmm
>
> 1080 that 1.5 megawatt KCBS station was there late, beneath KFXX
>
> 1206 China in Korean. I happened to be sitting here listening briefly
> at 1530UT whit the station booming in.  Let me tell you they do a
> pattern switch at 1530. It dropped like a rock, but I could still see
> the off-channel carrier way down in the noise.  Either that or they
> blew a major amplifier at exactly 1530 but still kept the carrier
> sort of on the air.
>
> 1242, 1287,1400, 1422 and 1503 were all the usual Japanese and all
> good only after dawn for me, with 1503 being the weakest.
>
> 1386 had the NHK2 Synchros most of the morning, for the first time in weeks.
>
> 1548 I've been noticing a carrier here on good far south mornings for
> the past three weeks. If it is there, it is late. Conventional wisdom
> would be 4QD, but I don't hear Australia here very well (the Victoria
> Gang of Three hears them much better. Also, I haven't been hearing
> DUs much even when they do.... when 639 is Fiji for them, it is
> ALWAYS either inaudible or CNR1 for me. Yesterday, Walt had Fiji and
> I had CNR1(!) Anyway, I've dared to fantasize that I might hear the
> monster DW transmitter in Sri Lanka, since Bruce heard them at
> Grayland and then again at QCI. Well, late this morning... until
> after 1535 UTC, 1548 was in audio.  It was the stable, unfading audio
> that I noticed on the longest range signals during the Easter Island
> DXpedition. Unfortunately, it was stable just at the threshold of
> intelligibility. No way could I (or anyone else) possibly ID the
> language (Hindi at that hour.)  Nuts, Nuts, Nuts!!!  I listened to
> long stretches of the lowest possible mumble level audio.  Well,
> everybody needs the equivalent of the Search for the Holy Grail, I
> guess............
>
> A wonderful morning, really!
>
> John B.
>
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