[IRCA] TP for 24 Oct from Victoria, BC

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

Listened from 1350UT for about an hour.   Most noticeable difference from other mornings was the generally poor performance of JOUB-774 (JOBB-828 had the usual big strength).  Ironically, it recovered sufficiently so that by 1600UT, it and 828 could be heard with the NHK-2 music box s/off at reasonable strength.  I don't know how long conditions lasted this morning, as I went off to have coffee with a number of other south Vancouver Island DXers, but even at 1600, there was weak audio from CNR-1 on 639, N. Korea on 657, JOIB-747and VoA-1575.   

In general, the DX was very "bitty" (like the TA's have been), a short rise to peak strength, then quickly back into the splatter.  So not a stellar morning, except for the lateness of the fade out, and with a continuing emphasis on the low part of the band.

pretty darn good audio (at least briefly): 

594 JOAK 
603 HLSA
774 JOUB, but not until 1430UT
828 JOBB



reasonable audio  at  times during the period (though often battling w/splash or noise):

153 R. Rossii
279 R. Rossii 
558 HLQH //603
567 JOIK//594
639 CNR-1 //5030
666 JOBK //594
675 VV talk from 1425UT, weaker before that
873 JOGB //828 at 1430
936 CC at 1401UT
963 RR at 1429, CRI
972 HLCA
981 CNR-1 //5030 at 1414UT briefly
1017 CRI w/KK talk at 1413
1143 Taiwan Fisheries //738 at 1437UT, but didn't seem to be //738 earlier
1575 VoA



not so reasonable audio, occasional words in splash or noise: 

612 JOLK //594, but not until later
621 CC talk? along with hum at 1419UT
702 North Korea //2850 at 1432, along with hum
738 various, but not //1143 until later
747 JOIB
855 N. Korea //3320 w/hum
945 CNR1 //5030
1287 JOHR later
1566 HLAZ at 1437, faint but clear (at one point, channel was quite messy, with 1565.992, 1566.000 and 1566.029 carriers in addition to HLAZ)




Burbles in the splatter and noise:

711 HLKA?
756 seemed //5030? so CNR-1
801 CC?
918 CC?
1116
1134
1161
1188
1314 w/hum later
1422 later
1593 seemed //5030 later, so CNR-1






Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter):

1251, 1332


best wishes,

Nick



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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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