Re: [IRCA] NE Oregon, morning LWBC TA, 162 France Inter

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations Steve

Northwest DXers have long considered the possibility of TA's at our 
local sunrise, but I don't recall anyone ever doing it before, except 
for Radio Farda.

According to Geoclock, it peaked at least 30 minutes before local sunset 
at the transmitter.

Bruce

On 12/4/2010 8:38 AM, Steve Ratzlaff wrote:
> LWBC Radio Rossii doing better today with 171 heard, first time in 
> quite awhile, as well as all the others at good level for awhile (153, 
> 180, 189, 234, 279). (180 goes off at 1400 utc.) 164 Mongolia with 
> very poor audio for a short while at 1352 utc. But cycling through 
> checking hets in CW mode, both 162 and 198 had weak hets. Rechecking 
> later, 162 was up to a good level het, and switching to SSB, produced 
> some audio that eventually became poor level, "7" in the old John 
> Bryant rating with FF talk and music from France Inter. This is the 
> first time I've ever had TA audio in the morning, and an historic 
> event for me! If I get any LWBC TA audio it's in the evening, and last 
> evening was quite good, as I reported earlier, due to the low A&K 
> indices. Normally the 1600' E/W wire gives best, usually only, LWBC TA 
> audio in the evening. This morning the 400' N/S wire gave best audio 
> on 162, so the polar path was definitely there. I first had 162 audio 
> at 1426 utc. Nice 5 pips and a longer tone at 1500. My sunrise 
> according to GeoClock is 1515. Audio continued, finally fading away at 
> 1524 utc. My self-modified sync detector on the R75 had the best 
> audio, holding lock the whole while, even a little past 1524 after all 
> audio has faded.
> Radio Rossii continued good, with 153 the last to be heard, with pips 
> just before 1600 then sign off and the TX left the air about 10 
> seconds later.
> I wonder how often the Albertan guys (or anybody else, for that 
> matter) notice TA reception in the morning?
> 73,
> Steve
> NE Oregon
> R75, longwires

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