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- Subject: Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-25
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- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:55:58 -0400
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Hello All,
Asian propagation took another slight step backwards this morning as vibrant audio was limited to the Japanese and Korean big guns on the low and middle band-- and there weren't very many of them. The NHK stations were not as strong as in previous days, and the high band continued its one week skid.
At my 1240 start time only the 1053-Jammer was sounding energetic, with all the other TP's struggling to get out of the noise. 738-BEL2 managed weak audio around 1255 in this predawn darkness, but its signal never amounted to much during the rest of the session. At the first break of daylight around 1310 both 594-JOAK and 747-JOIB rose up to a fair level, and 657-Pyongyang managed to get through the domestic splatter with a moderately energetic tirade around 1312. 603-HLSA also came out of the noise with a very weak Chinese co-channel around 1320, but the KBS2 network's deep-voiced male sounded pretty anemic, and his voice tone blended in with the noise very well. Finally toward the end of sunrise enhancement around 1345 both 594-JOAK and 972-HLCA rose up in strength suddenly, with JOAK hitting a fair to good level and HLCA briefly pegging the PL-380 S/N with a huge signal during Korean pop music at 1348. This was by far the best signal in a fairly lackluster morning as the Asians continued to slide backwards from their stellar performance on September 23.
594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Good level Japanese male speech late in sunrise enhancement at 1345; best NHK signal of the morning
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3dm0578v3j2omp6/594-JOAK-1345z092514PL380.MP3
657 Pyongyang BS Pyongyang, N. Korea Fair level male tirade getting through domestic splatter at 1317
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/rh2s7gk33oii8u6/657-Pyongyang-1317z092514PL380.MP3
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Strong level Korean YL speech and pop music briefly pegging the PL-380 S/N readout towards the end of this recording;
best Asian signal of the morning (by far)
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/t1lmpowbjrhpukx/972-HLCA-1349z092514PL380.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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