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- Subject: Yesterday's (10-1) TP Reception Report from Puyallup, WA
- From: d1028gary@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 11:34:17 -0400
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Hello All,
For some unknown reason this post never made it to the IRCA reflector yesterday, so it is being re-sent this morning (now that the reflector seems to be operating normally).
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Hello All,
What started out as a miserable session in the predawn darkness was rescued somewhat by a late sunrise enhancement boost, which brought a couple of big gun Asians out of the noise up to a respectable level. One of them even managed to peg the PL-380 S/N briefly, in one of the strangest comebacks in recent memory.
The band was dreary indeed during the predawn darkness from 1250-1315, with only 738 (presumed BEL2) and 936 (presumed Anhui) flirting with audio in a halfhearted way. Around 1320 there were weak signs of life from 594-JOAK, 603-HLSA, 747-JOIB and 972-HLCA, although none of them could sustain their poor audio for more than a few seconds at a time. It was looking like the first day of October might be a real clunker, when increasing sunlight around 1345 suddenly brought both 747-JOIB (with NHK2 Chinese lessons) and 972-HLCA (with a Korean radio drama) out of the noise up to a good level. 747-JOIB stayed at that level fighting the Portland splatter for the rest of sunrise enhancement, but 972-HLCA just kept getting stronger, finally pegging the PL-380 S/N display briefly around 1352. Other than these two diehards 657-Pyongyang and the 1053-Jammer also got some minor benefit from the late Korean propagation surge, reaching fair audio in and out before t he band collapsed around 1400. Best Asian audio of the morning (excellent) was from 972-HLCA around 1352-- which had been comatose for 90% of the session before its late comeback. To put things in perspective, though, only a few big gun Asians showed up with any kind of life this morning, and nothing remotely exotic.
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Korean female-male speech and music at very good level during radio drama at 1347
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/9tux6bjopftrzjk/972-HLCA-1347z100114PL380.MP3
Pegging the PL-380 S/N display briefly with excellent-level female speech at 1352
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/b389bxz188bujut/972-HLCA-1352z100114PL380.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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