Re: [IRCA] Alberta TP's for 5 Sep 2008

[WALTER SALMANIW <salmaniw@xxxxxxx>]

Nigel, I found your comments very interesting, as out here in the north west of BC, Asia recovered very nicely, and I received very little DU activity today.  Perhaps that "donut hole" is south of me allowing for Asia to propagate once again.........Walt in Masset.

----- Original Message -----
From: Nigel Pimblett <njp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, September 5, 2008 3:08 pm
Subject: [IRCA] Alberta TP's for 5 Sep 2008
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> With the current solar activity all the action here this morning 
> was DU, 
> as expected.   Quite a good morning, with audio on 
> 531, 558, 612, 
> 639,684, 702, 729, 738, 774, 828, 846, 855, 891, 1098, 1116, and 
> 1386.   
> Now, many of those were very brief periods of audio, and quite 
> weak, but 
> it still rates as my best morning for DU audio this 
> season.  Was 
> especially interesting to hear a few seconds of Aussie talk on 
> 1098, 
> something I've never heard before.  Another first was 
> hearing audio on 
> 1386, which didn't sound English, so I'm suspecting Radio Tarana 
> in New 
> Zealand.    Many of the domestic signals seemed 
> depressed, which 
> helped.  For example tuning to 890 only yielded 5AN on 891, 
> with no 
> North American competition.   891 and 828 provided the 
> strongest 
> signals, with 1116 lagging behind for some 
> reason.    In spite of the 
> total lack of Asian signals, still a very interesting morning.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, Alberta
> 
> 
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