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- Subject: Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-24
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- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:35:39 -0400
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Hello All,
Asian low-band propagation this morning wasn't nearly as potent as during yesterday's exceptional session, but there were still some decent signals to be found-- mostly from the Koreans. In comparison to Dennis' report this morning the Koreans on 603, 657 and 972 seemed to do a little better here, although his Japanese stations on 567 and 1008 never made it through the domestic splatter.
At the session's 1230 start time it was pretty obvious that yesterday's wild low band propagation was long gone, with the obscure Chinese stations on 594, 603, 657 and elsewhere completely silent. The Japanese big guns on 594, 693, 747, 774 and 828 were back to their usual predawn strength with good signals in and out, but never came close to pegging the PL-380 S/N readout like they did yesterday. 558-HLQH was just as strong around 1250 as it was yesterday, though, equaling its best strength of the new season. At the first sign of daylight around 1310 both 603-HLSA and 738-BEL2 came out of the noise with fair signals, and both of them were in and out for the next 40 minutes. Around 1325 603-HLSA went on somewhat of a romp, reaching very good signals with Korean pop music hosted by KBS2's deep-voiced male. 657-Pyongyang also reached a very good level around 1343 with female vocal music, playing the same ancient song twice in a row. Finally the NHK2 big gun 693-JOAB was unusually potent with its Chinese lessons at 1347, completely breaking free from the Vancouver splatter to manage its best signals ever here (slightly better than yesterday's performance). Overall the session wasn't bad, but it certainly was no repeat of yesterday. Best signal of the morning was from 693-JOAB at 1347, with Chinese lessons at a very good (and sustained) level.
603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Very good strength Korean pop music and the deep-voiced male DJ // 558 at 1327; reaching its best level of the new season without any Chinese
competition http://www.mediafire.com/listen/uxd0t2n6ur5eb89/603-HLSA-1327z092414PL380.MP3
657 Pyongyang BS N. Korea Female vocal music at good strength at 1343, a song heard twice in a row this morning (and very often during other recent Pyongyang broadcasts)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/meaqg32k82w9ndb/657-Pyongyang-1343z092414PL380.MP3
693 JOAB Tokyo, Japan Very good strength NHK2 Chinese lessons at 1347; free of CBU splatter with its best signal ever observed here (and best Asian signal of the session)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/fzd352xnu371xed/693-JOAB-1347z092414PL380.MP3
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Korean male speech at a good level around 1317; not quite up to its usual blowtorch level this morning
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/5vu573z0nct0u66/972-HLCA-1317z092414PL380.MP3
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight +
15" FSL antenna
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