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[IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18
Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies
between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that
we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local
SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500
and maybe hear them sign-off at 1507 or so as they used to do on
Sundays. Well, things hung in fairly well and there was plenty of
audio from the stronger stations at 1500 and also at 1515... and the
NHK2s did NOT sign off. Am I confused as to which day??? I thought
that I read that they were signing off again?
Anyway, I was so impressed with things still going at 45 minutes
after dawn that I rechecked at 9:30AM PDT (1630 UTC) two hours after
dawn. Yup, there were still hets all over the place and listenable
JJ audio on 594 and 1242!!! I also had threshold audio on 774, 837,
945, 972 and 1143. Unfortunately, I had to leave the house right
after that, so I don't know when the last audio faded... But WOW! As
they say in the financial field "past performance does not
necessarily predict future results" BUT, if I had an antenna that
looked toward the TAs, I sure think that I'd plan to be at the dials
at dark tonight.
The main TP opening today seemed above average, but not excellent.
The upper band was open as was the slightly more populated lower
band and I image that I had about Nigel's 60-plus audios. The more
interesting catches were the Amur River Russian on 810, along with
but dominating North Korea and an unid CC on 927. 630 was KJNO,
Juneau for a while and then CNR1 and North Korea took over.
The most fun of the morning was some WILD "Central Asian" music on
1503. During the Asian season, JOUK, NHK1 Akita in northern Honshu
just owns 1503. This music did not sound like normal NHK1 fare at
all, it was louder than JOUK usually is, and it WAS NOT // TO NHK1 ON
531 AND 594!!!!! A quick glance at PAL showed a VOR 500 kW
transmitter at Dushambe, Tajikistan and I was much excited! However,
my house of cards came crashing down when the music finally ended and
a Japanese lady closed out the program with a few judicious comments
and went into the NHK 1400 Time Check and TOH routine! I had checked
parallels twice in the ten minutes or so... and there was no question
but what JOUK was running a local program. The reason that it
sounded Central Asian is because it was probably early Japanese
music. All of East, Central and South Asian early music was heavily
influenced by Indian music which reached those areas as Buddhism
spread out from Northern India between 500BC and 500AD. It is rare to
hear that kind of music on NHK and the fact that it was a local
program makes me wonder if they weren't covering a music festival or
something. Akita is the northern headquarters for NHK, so JOUK is a
staffed station, with local news, production staff, etc. Geez, I wish
it had been Dushanbe!!!
Well its only four or five hours until dark!!!
John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops
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