[IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 9-26... Ultralight TP #90

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
With finally some time to really chase TP's this morning, the 5.5' PVC loop 
 was set up in my back yard, and ready to go at 1300. Away from the house 
wiring  and RF pollution, the TP's did indeed have better strength, and the 
nulls of  domestic stations seemed deeper (compared to the 36" bedside model).
 
A presumed 891-Radio Thailand had been received here mixing with NHK1 for  
several mornings this week, but this morning at 1334 it was clearly dominant 
on  the frequency, strong enough for language recognition (and an MP3). 
This was  Ultralight TP #90 here, which although not as strong as VOA's 
mega-station on  1575, is still one of the stronger Thailand AM transmitters. It 
had a nice  signal on the C.Crane SWP Slider, inductively coupled to the 5.5' 
PVC loop. New  Ultralight TP loggings are getting tougher to find in 
Puyallup, especially after  70 of them were logged on a stand-alone Slider E100 
last year.
 
603-HLSA was very strong at 1347 over the UnID Mandarin Chinese station, a  
reversal of the situation the past few days. The Chinese college student 
(Jacey  Wang) who has translated many UnID Chinese MP3's for our TP-chasing  
group will receive another one of the 603 kHz station, which has puzzled  
Derek Vincent and me for some time.
 
The PVC loop showed promise in nulling out many domestic stations to search 
 for weak TP co-channels, but after setting up the deep null on the pests, 
the  TP's didn't always cooperate with strong signals :-)  Unlike the 9  
kHz-split frequencies away from the domestics, the ICF-2010 carrier strength  
check doesn't mean much on the domestic frequencies, because it's hard to 
tell  whether the carrier is coming from the domestic pest, or the TP. The  
sunrise enhancement here in Puyallup is much shorter than in Grayland (usually  
only about 15 minutes), so it's always a scramble to use the time 
productively  in chasing new TP loggings.
 
I'm glad that Walt, Colin and Bruce had fun this morning. Conditions here  
seemed as good as yesterday, perhaps because of the superior loop antenna 
being  used.
 
73, Gary
 
Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick)
Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter)
5.5' collapsible-frame PVC loop (set up in the back yard)
 
      
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