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[IRCA] TPs From Grayland, Monday, July 7, 2008: Below Par
- Subject: [IRCA] TPs From Grayland, Monday, July 7, 2008: Below Par
- From: "John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:41:14 -0700
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Once again, my morning was saved by Ultralighting. Using the 313e,
conditions were clearly sub-par. With sunrise here at about 1220, I
had nothing above threshold audio until 1115. From then, there was a
mixture of Kiwi, Aussie and a few of our oldest friend JJs making it
to language recognition until things finally got just a bit better in
the final 30 minutes before dawn. More prominent among the early mumbles were:
567 Nat Radio Wellington
594 JOAK Tokyo, briefly good`at 1135 (the JJs seemed to peak about
1135 to 1140)
657//963 New Zealand's Southern Star
693 DU mumbles, Probably Radio Sport Dunedin
774: DU on one set of loops, JJ on the other. Both at 6.9999
774 JOUB Akita briefly good at 1138 // much poorer 828
792 RN Brisbane at a 7 briefly at 1104
1098 DU EE about equal with Marshalls carrier. Presume ZB Christchurch
1116 4BC Brisbane 7 at 1128
1287 JOHR Sapporo almost at lang recognition
MAX DAWN: from 1150 UTC
558 Radio Fiji One, Suva heard at 1250... 30 minutes after dawn
briefly at excellent level // much poorer 639
567 N Radio, Wellington excellent at 1230
639 Fiji Radio One. Great Polynesian/Melanesian choir program from
1210 until about 1230. Good on peaks
702 2BL Sydney good (8) at 1153 with talk
738 2NR Grafton, ABC ID at 1215, Level of 8+ was best of AM.
783 Access Radio, Wellington (pres.) with Polynesian program good at 1240
900 KNUI, Kahalui, Maui was noted beneath the durn Victoria
flamethrower throughout the morning, thanks to the Wellbrook Array.
KNUI came up after dawn and just blasted in for about 20 minutes. Fabulous.
990 KHBZ Honolulu heard dominating frequency at 1300 with a 3 AM time
check before the news. Was pretty well gone by 1306
1017 As I tuned past at 1246, a half hour after dawn, caught a very
nice "Radio Hauraki" (Christchurch, NZ) ID and then the signal
dropped like a stone
The post-dawn Hawaiians were a happy accident and were really
blasting in. 558 Suva was also a nice addition to the summer's log as
639 has` been my only regular Fijian for some time.
The morning was made a lot more special though by adding three TPs
JOAK-594, 2NR-738 Grafton and Access Radio-783, Wellington to my
Ultralight log. Also added were the Hawaiians, 900 KNUI and 990
KHBZ. Although I have a number of Ultralights here with me to test,
the E100 with the Wellbrook Phased Array was the DX machine of choice.
Interesting observation: there were a couple of times where I had a
chance to test the "ultimate sensitivity" of the E100 against the
313e, which has the best working sensitivity I've ever found in A/B
testing of receivers using TPs as targets. There were a couple of
times where there was no adjacent channel interference at all (even
on the E100) for signals that were just at or almost at language
recognition (but no more) on the 313e. I could not hear them at all
on the E100, despite being hooked to the same antenna. I look forward
to doing the Atkins filter mod on the E100 in hopes that the improved
signal/noise ratio might get the E100 up into the Top DX Machine
category.... wouldn't that be something!
Well, despite sub-par conditions, it was still a fun morning!
I'll be here three more mornings and will try to report in from the
local Library in nearby Westport, WA, each day.
John Bryant
Winradio 313e + Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array at SW and NW
Grayland, WA, USA
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