[IRCA] TP Results @ Grayland: September 19, 2008

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

This is similar to Ultralight report, with additions/deletions:

The first morning started out with a bunch of DUs in at 1000 UTC, 
before Japanese sunset. These were only the regulars and were all too 
weak to be heard on the E100+Wellbrook Array. I went back to bed for 
90 blissful minutes and started back in at 1140, with local sunrise 
expected at 1320. Things were already quite strong from Asia at 
tune-in and I was very busy from then until 1335.

It was all Asia through to dawn at 1320, then, in post-dawn, the DUs 
returned.... but rather sparsely and weakly.

Since we have heard practically everything many times that I was 
hearing this morning, I concentrated on usaing my main radio as a 
spotting receiver for an Ultralight DX setup that consisted of an 
Eton E100, modified with a better IF filter and inductively coupled 
to the Wellbrook Phased Array.

With the Ultralight equipment,  I ended up logging eighteen Asians and one DU:

693 JOAB Tokyo Japan 8/19/2008 1145 NHK 2 EE Lessons
828 JOBB Osaka Japan  8/19/2008 1159 NHK 2 TOH
891 JOHK Sendai Japan 8/19/2008 1323 NHK1 Talk//594
963 CRI RR Svc Manchuria? China  8/19/2008 1202 News in RR: First China
972 HLCA Dangjin South Korea  8/19/2008 1207 Talk in KK ID @ 1300
1017 CRI KK Svc Changchun China  8/19/2008 1219 Talk in Korean
1035 HLCP P'ohang South Korea  8/19/2008 1307 KBS1 //1305
1053 Jam Synchro Multiple Sites South Korea  8/19/2008 1230 Buzzzzz
1215 CNR2 Shenyang China 8/19/2008 1241 CC Talk
1242 JOLF Tokyo Japan 8/19/2008 1232 JJ Talk
1287 JOHR Sapporo Japan 8/19/2008 1234 JJ Talk
1305 HLSV Uljin South Korea 8/19/2008 1307 KBS1 //1035
1332 JOSF Nagoya Japan 8/19/2008 1310 JJ Talk
1350 JOER Hiroshima Japan 8/19/2008 1312 JJ Talk
1386 NHK2 Synchro Japan 8/19/2008 1243 EE Lesson
1422 JORF Yokohama Japan 8/19/2008 1314 JJ Talk 50th TP
1512 2RN Newcastle Australia  8/19/2008 1330 Aussie Talk
1575 VOA Ayutthaya Thailand  8/19/2008 1209 Talk in lang: First Thai

None of these were new on the Winradio 313E or any other top 
communications receiver used at Grayland, but each was exciting as I 
snagged them on the E100.  Cheering was heard!!!  Probably the most 
interesting were the two 10 kW. Koreans on 1035 and 1305, caught in 
parallel on the E100, thanks to Bruce Portzer's incomparable PAL Log. 
The 891 NHK1 Sendai Log was quite interesting as well, not being that 
common at Grayland.... it was made special by also catching 891-5AN 
Adelaide (unneeded) as the band faded around 1330. Several other 
Japanese were heard on the E100, but were unneeded, having been heard 
on the July DXpedition (594, 774, 1134, 1287). I was especially 
pleased, also, to snag JOER, 1350 kHz., heard once in a while 
at  Grayland, but never before on an ultralight.  Other notables were 
my first Chinese and Thai stations.

I'm also pleased to report that I finally heard my first BAREFOOT 
Trans-Pacific station:

774 JOUB* Akita* Japan* Asia* 500 8/19/2008 1252 NHK2 EE Lesson - *BAREFOOT*

I heard that with Sony's tiny SRF-T615, pressed against the 
west-facing picture window, about 5 feet from all of the computer 
equipment. I'm fairly sure that I would have heard three or four more 
stations Barefoot this morning that were doing fairly well quite well 
on the Unlimited set up.... Japan 594, China 963, South Korea 972 and 
1566.... IF I HAD BEEN WILLING TO GO OUTSIDE IN THE RAIN and leave 
the E100 + Winradio main sets.

***HEARD ON WINRADIO 313e ONLY***

DUs at 6 or 7: 567,585, 612, 693, 702, 855, 1098 with Island audio at 
1025, 1116

1377 CNR1 presumed at 1235
927, Chinese probable, way under mod.
936 Anhui probable plus a second station.
1440 JOWF Sapporo
1475 BIG FAT HET, but no audio.... either running OC or have severe 
mod problems


666 is just obliterated down here with IBOC... the only international 
channel that I can't hear on at least one or the other sideband, 
using the phased array and looking out to sea.  I did also notice 
more IBOC on the band overall, here at Grayland than I heard last 
year (The same thing can be said for my home QTH on Orcas.)

Well, for what I consider sub-par overall conditions, it sure was a 
fun morning, thanks to Ultralights!!! More tomorrow, I hope....


John Bryant
Grayland 2008.8 DXpedition
E100 + Wellbrook Phased Array
Winradio 313e  
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