[IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake "TA"

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for 
 my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first 
TA  audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band 
eagerly, I  noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had 
ghostlike  heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning 
the  ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, 
convincing  me that something was coming in from Europe  :-)
 
Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in  the 
back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for 
 Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After  
recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for 
more  "TA's," finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I 
suddenly  remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that 
were  heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it  
became clear that this "TA" was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset  peak 
(at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a  
European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9'  
loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second 
time  ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-)  I hope that this  
comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me.
 
73, Gary DeBock
(in Puyallup, WA)
      
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