[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-3

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     This morning's Asian signals ranged from comatose  (at 1300) to fair 
(around 1420), with some moderately good "big gun" TP  audio during brief 
moments. The first band check at 1300 was miserable indeed,  with even all the 
Asian carriers way down in the noise (this was probably the  same situation 
that Bill noted). The comatose band gave every impression of  being down for 
the count, although around 1330 the dead carriers started  springing to 
life, and before 1400 a few "big guns" like 747 and 774 were  producing fair 
audio through the domestic splatter. The situation continued to  gradually 
improve until around 1420, when 738-BEL2 produced enough fair Chinese  audio 
for a "soft mute" test of the new Tecsun PL-606 Ultralight radio  model (more 
later). The second-tier TP's never really got out of the gate this  morning, 
though, and the usual Chinese overachievers like 936-Anhui and  1377-CNR1 
were silent. Several Asian powerhouses like 648-VOR and 972-HLCA were  decent 
around 1430, though, and 657-Pyongyang got in a few weak Korean tirades  
before the band collapsed around 1445. In general the morning's session  was 
lackluster, but certainly much better than its prognosis at  1300.
 
     The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider  model (7.5" 
loopstick) and a new Tecsun PL-606 stock model, inductively coupled  to a 9' sided 
PVC tuned passive loop (in the cold back yard). A modified  ICF-2010 (30" 
loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver:
 
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Fair-good Japanese talk program  1412
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea (presumed)  Threshold  music 1417
648  VOR   Razdolnoye, Russia  Fair-good JJ audio late  at 1430
738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Fair male-female Chinese speech  at
         1418   _http://www.mediafire.com/?a1vlskgi1aeun4n_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?a1vlskgi1aeun4n)  
747  JOIB   Sapporo, Japan  Fair Radio English  conversation study
         program at 1348  _http://www.mediafire.com/?s7kgh4qhqtdxx1o_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?s7kgh4qhqtdxx1o)   
774  JOUB  Akita, Japan  Fair Radio Chinese program in bad  KTTH
         splatter around  1416
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Fair-good Radio Chinese around  1407
972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Fair-good Korean speech at  1410
1134  KBS3  Hwaseong, S. Korea  Poor-fair Korean in splatter  1355
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Fair-good Japanese religious pgm  1342
1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand  Poor-fair Asiatic language  1414
 
     For those interested in the new Tecsun PL-606 (the  newest 1 kHz DSP 
Ultralight model), a "soft mute" test was run on the fair  signal from 
738-BEL2 (Taiwan, in Chinese) at 1420 this morning. The new  PL-606 was 
inductively coupled to the 9' PVC loop, and a recording was made on  738 kHz for the 
first 20 seconds, and then on 737 kHz (1 kHz farther from the  740-KCBS 
splatter) for the next 21 seconds. 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?p8kkulbnnpdhp2s_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?p8kkulbnnpdhp2s) 
Although the KCBS splatter and 2 kHz heterodyne disappeared on 737, so did  
much of Taiwan's signal, unfortunately. In this respect the new Tecsun  
PL-606 may resemble its PL-310 sibling, more than the reduced-soft-mute PL-380  
model. Further tests are planned later today on the highly sensitive  new 
radio, the most compact 1 kHz DSP Ultralight on the market.
 
73 and Good DX, 
Gary DeBock
 
         
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