[IRCA] Booming Night Owl TP's on the 7.5" Loopstick Tecsun PL-380

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
Thanks to Nick, Nigel and Bill for their sunrise TP reports this  morning.
 
Having also experienced the recent mediocre strength of the TP's  during 
our west coast sunrise period, I've occasionally checked the propagation  to 
Asia around 0900 UTC, during the Asian sunset period. Although the west coast 
 hour is far from convenient (0100 local), this early morning the Asiatic 
TP's  were really strong on the newly modified Tecsun PL-380 DSP receiver-- 
with many  having the best signals heard for over a month.
 
Although the $45 Tecsun model has no "S" meter, HLCA-972 was like a solid  
"9" on the stand-alone modified PL-380 at 0906 UTC, with this vibrant signal 
 from the Korean YL announcer: 
 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?zylnm2m2jzn_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?zylnm2m2jzn) 
 
Tuning around and checking the other Asiatic signals (while the  more 
sensible west coast DXers were sleeping), I found equally strong  Japanese 
signals from 594-JOAK, 747-JOIB and 774-JOUB. 1134 kHz also  had a nice mix of 
JOQR and the KBS Korean, while 657-Pyongyang had some serious  strength behind 
its YL's tirade. Finally I checked 738 kHz, hoping to find a  nice signal 
from the KBS Korean, but instead it was all Taiwan Fisheries with  their 
Chinese call-in program, having this fairly good signal on the  modified PL-380 
around 0926: 
 
 _http://www.mediafire.com/?jjjnizymtyz_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?jjjnizymtyz) 
 
Because of their freedom from the "soft mute" issue affecting other DSP  
radio models, the modified PL-380 (and barefoot PL-380's) can tune 1 kHz 
farther  away from domestic splatter to improve reception, and to eliminate  
heterodynes with domestic stations. This was done with the modified  PL-380 
during both of the above recordings, so that the 972-HLCA recording  was 
actually made on 973 kHz, and the 738-Taiwan recording was made on 737  kHz. This 
trick eliminated the 2 kHz heterodynes, and helped  the DX stations escape 
domestic splatter.
 
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA)
 
Spotting receiver : Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick)
Main receiver:  Modified Tecsun PL-380 (fixed-coil 7.5"  loopstick)   
 
 
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