[IRCA] They're Baaack: TP on 28 Sept

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friends....

After several dawns of quite mediocre TP reception here in NW 
Washington state, conditions do seem to have finally 
rebounded.  Reception was still best to Japan, but a good number of 
Chinese stations were in well. The biggest hit for me was hearing JJ 
on 738.  There is a huge Korean that usually dominates that 
frequency, but this morning, I had decent level JJ top the KK from 
1348 until about 1359.... it slowly faded down to miss the TOH, of 
course.  Since this is either a 5 kW in Okinawa or a 5+1 Commercial 
Synchro in northern Honshu (more likely, of course) I just stopped my 
bandscan and took notes+recording. Other signals of note: 963: CNR 
Russian was superb, Beijing was in on 1026, 1377, CNR-1 and 1305 
CNR-2 were both doing very well, though late in the opening, 1305, 
presumed CNR-2, sure sounded Korean.  It could have been the lone KBS 
relay on that frequency.... or it could have been a non-standard 
Chinese dialect..  The frequency bears watching.

Local sunrise here is 1408 and usually I enjoy very little post-LSR 
action.  This morning saw most signals fade down relatively soon 
after LSR, but some of the stronger signals lasted a while at good 
levels. 774 Japan lasted at a decent level until after 1436 and 1575 
Thai-VOA was great until a fade to poor at 1436.  It lasted at 
poor-but-continuous until 1447 before it started to break up.... 
WOW!  40 minutes after LSR is some kind of record here for audio.

Patrick, I'll bet 891 was there from Thailand at max dawn, but I was 
invested in the situation on 738.... a bird in the hand, etc.

I'm gonna try to arrange some time at Grayland early next week, for 
sure.... I can't make the Oct. 5-8 do there, but maybe before then....

Is this fun or what!!! 
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