Re: [IRCA] Grayland, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-9

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gary, I love your vivid descriptions especially of the weather!  Thanks for
going to bat for us.  I had my own tribulations on the cruise but nothing
like your experiences!  73, Walt

On Monday, November 10, 2014, <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Murphy's Law made a serious ocean beach comeback this morning as heavy
> rain and wind combined with an Asian propagation drop off. The big gun
> TP's were still at huge levels, but the nasty weather seemed to scare away
> anything remotely exotic.
>
> Although the Asian big guns sounded vibrant during their sunset period
> around 0900 propagation seemed to hit the skids shortly thereafter,
> with signals greatly reduced by 1200. The weather had also turned nasty
> during the same period, and my ocean beach setup at 1300 required plastic
> tie wraps for the FSL antenna base and rain covers for the radios, antenna
> and MP3 recorder. Despite this serious hassle the second and third tier
> Asians seemed to have little interest in showing up, and I ended up
> recording S9+ signals from the likes of 828-JOBB and 1566-HLAZ (which I had
> ignored yesterday, in the DXing bonanza). After a serious search I came
> across weak NHK2 English lessons on 1593-- pretty routine DX, but just
> about the best that I could do in the wind, rain and noise. With conditions
> so awful at 1400 I decided to pack up everything and head back to Room 11
> of the Grayland Motel, which at least was warm and dry. Setting up the 17"
> FSL on its PVC base next to the Room 11 window was a desperate measure,
> which resulted in a serious reduction of Asian signal strength compared to
> the beach (and a serious increase in RF noise pollution). Despite this I
> was able to track down a fair to good signal from 1593-CNR1 (mixing with
> the NHK2 Chinese lessons at the time), a fairly good 1134 mix of KBS and
> JOQR (but nothing like yesterday), and the NHK2 sign off chimes on 774-JOUB
> at 1424. From what I could tell during the nasty weather the middle and
> high band had most of the limited action this morning, with low band
> stations like 603-HLSA and 657-Pyongyang very anemic at best.  The Japanese
> and Korean big guns did survive the propagation slowdown quite well, of
> course, with the usual ocean coast blowtorch signals on 594, 693, 747, 774,
> 828, 972, 1053, 1566 and 1575. They weren't exactly what I was looking for,
> though, after dealing with serious rain, wind and the Grayland Motel's
> little quirks (like no paved driveways, phones or cleaning service)..
>
> 1134  JOQR   Tokyo, Japan    Recorded inside Room 11 at 1408, the giggly
> Japanese station is at a fair to good level mixing with KBS and the
> Grayland Motel's RF pollution. Quite a bit more anemic than yesterday
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/listen/6aefepy3gk8a3gn/1134-JOQR-KBSmix-1408z110914PL380.MP3
>
>
> **1566  HLAZ   Jeju, S. Korea   For those who wonder what the big
> gun Asians sound like on the ocean coast, here is a typical sample. The
> Korean Christian broadcaster is still testing the crunch resistance of my
> PL-380 Ultralight with its Japanese service at an S9+++ level at 1325--
> despite the propagation drop off
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/listen/q08guomqhl54ovq/1566-HLAZ-1325z110914PL380.MP3
>
>
> 1593  NHK2 Synchros (JOTB/ JOQB)   Fair level English lessons // 774 at
> 1326; mixing with CNR1 later on in the session
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/listen/dfr6fi72jf5wqpu/1593-NHK2-1326z110914PL380.MP3
>
>
> 1593  CNR1   Changzhou, China  (another Room 11 recording)  Brief
> good-level signal at 1349; mixing with the NHK2 synchros (and the Grayland
> Motel RF hash) later on
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/listen/0gd88h0uz2pzl20/1593-CNR1-1349z110914PL380.MP3
>
> 73 and Good DX,
> Gary DeBock (DXing at Grayland, WA)
> 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight  +
> 17" DXpedition FSL antenna
>
>
>
>
>
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