[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-10

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     It's nice to be in complete agreement with  Richard and Bill that this 
morning's Asian propagation was improved over  yesterday, with a healthy 
sunrise enhancement here producing many  vibrant TP signals. The Asian "big 
guns" were generally restored to  their normal strong levels, although some 
mystery co-channels pestered them  on certain frequencies (a typical quirk of 
late-season TP  propagation).
     The Korean "big gun" 972-HLCA has been fighting a  battle with an UnID 
station (apparently Chinese, because of rare Chinese speech)  with an 
English study format from 1430-1530 the past week, although  there don't seem to 
be any reports of such a station format in the PAL, or  other recent 
loggings. A slow English speech format was heard on the  station six days ago 
during one of its rare dominant periods, and it  has been pestering HLCA heavily 
on mornings with good propagation. Another  interesting signal was 
657-Pyongyang's huge carrier with apparent puny  modulation, having the high audio 
frequencies seemingly reduced by a  transmitter issue. 738-BEL2 (Taiwan 
Fisheries) had another excellent signal this  morning with its typical Chinese pop 
music, and most of the Asian  powerhouses were still going strong at 1520, 
when DXing was cut short  here. Hopefully this vibrant transoceanic 
propagation will  continue at least until tonight, allowing a few TA's to make 
return  appearances to western Washington and BC.
 
     The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider  model (7.5" 
loopstick), inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop  (in the back 
yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB  spotting 
receiver:
 
558  HLQH  Daegu, S. Korea  Fair-good music at 1421, //  603
585  JOPG  Kushiro, Japan  Fair Japanese talk program  1454
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Good Japanese weather report  1459
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Fair Korean music 1423,  // 558
639  CNR1  China Synchros  Good male-female speech  1433
648  VOR   Razdolnoye, Russia  Strong Russian  disco music
                     during Chinese external program at 1418
657  Pyongyang BS  Strong carrier but apparent low  modulation,
                     (with high audio frequency cutoff) at 1442
                     _http://www.mediafire.com/?3xgsc7kw8l96xgp_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?3xgsc7kw8l96xgp) 
666  JOBK  Osaka, Japan  Fair-good Japanese talk program  1436
675  VOV   Hanoi, Vietnam  Fair Vietnamese male-female  talk 1450
729  China  (presumed Jiangxi)  Fair Chinese in CHMJ slop at  1515
738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Strong Chinese pop  music at 1415
                     _http://www.mediafire.com/?f7mhfivtq1l0pkw_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?f7mhfivtq1l0pkw)  
747  JOIB   Sapporo, Japan  Good Radio English  lessons at 1411
774  JOUB  Akita, Japan  Fair language lessons in KTTH  splatter
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Fair-good w/ UnID  Chinese QRM 1503
936  Anhui, China  Fair with Chinese intro to foreign  music at 1423
972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Fighting it out at 1508 with  strong 
                    UnID  English co-channel (apparently from China, with
                     occasional Chinese speech) 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?1flodlb8wl2cjhg_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?1flodlb8wl2cjhg) 
1035  CNR1  China Synchros  Fair-good CNR1 interval music  1430
1044  CRI     Jiangsu, China  Good Japanese  external program 1409
1134  KBS3  Hwaseong, S. Korea  Good Korean conversation  1420
1377  CNR1  China  Fair-good Chinese with occasional  co-channel
                     in KRKO slop, but only 5 + 1 pips (Chinese) at 1500
1476  UnID   The UnID Chinese noted by Nick had a strong  carrier
                     here this morning, but the KSUH noise was stronger
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Good religious program at  1518
1575  VOA   Ban Rassom, Thailand  Fair Asiatic  language at 1519
 
For those interested in the mystery 972 kHz HLCA co-channel,  it was also 
heard here with English language lessons on November 4th  (during a rare fade 
out of the Korean) at 1434, having slow English  speech similar to the 
language lessons on the NHK2 "big guns"  
_http://www.mediafire.com/?eio1t49oxi4oal8_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?eio1t49oxi4oal8)  .
 
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock
 
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