Re: [IRCA] TPs in the East

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice going, Barry. A shame that none produced audio. I have never had audio 
from any DU's except X-banders (when few US stations were on in X-band) even 
here on the west BOGs. Carriers have happened over the years, but not audio 
except from Island stations on 1098 and 738. Both these commonly have 
carriers and I've even noted 1098's (Marshall Is, typically OC after 1100) 
het on a barefoot portable.

>From RI in the late 70's very early 80's I never had a trace even from 738 
with 1300 ft of Bev thru the trees aimed right at it and from a QTH that 
could have had a bit of help from Long Island Sound in that direction. Also 
no trace of anything TP/DU on 1000-1200 footers aimed west.

Frpm Ogunquit ME in around 1984 I recall a morning (TA's were gone about 90 
min earlier) when I had several carriers with 1035 being just shy of audio 
level (IMHO) off the back of my TA Bevs. Also, I had 1700 feet up for about 
a month in Dec (not my land other other side of small river and the owner 
took the wire, I presume, even though no homes nearby and it typically was 
about 10-15 F for high temps.)aimed right at Japan and only a very weak 747 
carrier one morning.

Looks like I need to make sure I get up a bit early here in IL and leave the 
DX car out in the field and check for TP's since this is the time of the 
year when their peaks aren't much before my normal waking time.

Re:1566 here in IL I have had carriers looping both DU and towards Korea 
over the years but not close to audio levels. I think it would pay to run a 
BOG at 330 degrees here, but the best spot away from noisy powerlines to my 
east is behind my new house and said wire would run across some of my pool 
so it isn't practical right now !

73 KAZ Barrington IL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TPs in the East


> Great going, Barry!!!  From scanning down your list of carriers, I
> was already guessing a DU opening... glad that your Offsets "proved"
> me right.  It wouldn't be too unusual here to have DUs and the
> gazillion watt HLAZ coming through, anyway. It often sends most of
> its energy north with directional arrays.  However, when the DUs are
> here quite well, we have logged the Aussie 3NE in Wangaratta. In this
> past two years, we've often heard 3NE beneath HLAZ, but there have
> been occasions where 3NE was by itself and HLAZ was just not in.
>
> In any case, GREAT DXing!!!  Bravo!
>
> John Bryant
>
> At 01:12 PM 9/10/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>Well, carriers anyway.  :-)  This morning I happened to wake up a little
>>before sunrise (1035 UTC), so I hastened to the radio room.  Between 1000 
>>and
>>1055, I found hets on about two dozen channels, including 612 657 702 738 
>>756
>>792 819 873 882 909 927 936 945 954 1035 1071 1116 1503 1512 1521 1539
>>1548 1566 1593.  I did carrier frequency measurements on all of these, and
>>it's been an interesting exercise trying to match them up with listings in
>>the mwoffsets list.  There was one that matched up nicely with 738 Tahiti,
>>and, interestingly, another one of almost equal strength about 1 Hz lower.
>>There was a prominent carrier on 1566 that appeared to match up with HLAZ.
>>The others that I tentatively matched up with known offsets were all DUs,
>>including 2BL on 702, 7ZR on 936, 2UE on 954, 2RN on 1512, and one Kiwi, 
>>2ZB
>>on 1035.  The 1512 signal was particularly prominent, and about the last 
>>to
>>fade out.  Another biggie, of unknown origin, was on 612.003.  All, alas,
>>several dB short of producing audio, which is probably beyond the
>>capabilities of my modest antenna setup (just using a 40m dipole for these
>>receptions, and in a noisy urban location).  Interesting, nonetheless!
>>
>>Barry
>>
>>--
>>Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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