Re: [IRCA] Victoria TP's for 10/17/09 First Flush

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

Well, I'm somewhat glad to hear of the pedestrian conditions.  I went 
out yesterday in the rain to re-install my Wellbrook loop heads here 
after the trip to Grayland and then set the alarm this morning for 
well before dawn. Got up, fired up the receiver and ZAP! the lights 
went out on three of the four islands in our off-shore county. They 
were out for well over two hours. All three islands that went dark 
are served by the same undersea power cable and that is probably what 
went out. Happily, there is a backup cable or our power outage would 
have been a whole lot looooonger.

In any case, I heard no TPs this morning, but there is definite hope 
for tomorrow!

John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops





At 11:57 AM 10/17/2009 -0600, you wrote:
> I'd concur with Colin, an uninspiring morning.   In fact, when I 
> first tuned in it was downright dreadful, however it recovered 
> enough to be uprated.
> I also noted the Japanese big guns to be well down from yesterday.
> For some reason what seemed to be a Chinese station playiing a 
> lengthy vocal by a woman was doing quite well at 1330, but that was 
> about the only unusual reception noted.   Other more regular Chinese 
> catches, such as 945, 1044, 1206 were either feeble or missing entirely.
>
> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, Alberta
>
> cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Listened from 1345 to 1422UTC -
> > And although the lower band (531 to 855) was perky,
> > it was a pretty empty water closet over all.
> >
> > High lights included catching the NHK pips over the hour on 531
> > and listened to KFQD on 750 (IDed with the webstream...)
> > All the top tier JJ stations were WAY down; S5 to S7 instead of
> > S9+ on the Dual Wellbrook phased array (Drake R8)
> > Good audio on 639 from China. 603 was the jumble that NHP described
> > yesterday.
> >
> > Nothing new here folks.
> >
> > Back to bed.
> >
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