Re: [IRCA] TP for 31 Oct from Victoria, BC

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Nick and Bruce,
 
When I first checked the band at 1330 (before setting up the loops in the  
back yard) things did indeed seem more promising than they turned out from  
1400-1445. On the modified ICF-2010 indoors at 1330, I had audio from both  
738-Taiwan Fisheries and 657-Pyongyang. Between 1330 and 1410 the band  
seemed to drop off badly, and the audio from both of those stations fizzled out. 
 There was almost no sunrise enhancement noted, and conditions around 1435  
were bad enough to call it quits.
 
73, Gary    
 
 
In a message dated 10/31/2009 12:29:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Nick  Hall-Patch wrote:
> Hmm, in spite of Nigel's and Bruce's comments, this  morning in Victoria 
was a large improvement on yesterday, thought part of the  quantity of 
loggings was due to spending more time at it.   Hope the  guys at Grayland had 
similar conditions. 
>
> One caveat, the  strongest signals were heard between 1250 and 1330UT 
(maybe peaking about  1320), and signal strengths tapered off after that point, 
with no obvious  sunrise enhancement.   In addition, after 1330, the 
decline in  signals was most noticeable in the upper band, which had shown some 
signs of  liveliness previously.   Finally, 603 kHz and below was a bit of a  
gold mine of good signals this morning, though nothing new logged.    (also 
ran the SDR-14 earlier, and found Mayak chimes on 666//576 at 0959,  mystery 
chimes on 603 at 0959 and 1359, which I'm  suspecting is KBS2,  and 720 had 
CC pips at 1200UT mixing w/KDWN.
I also noticed better signals  at around 1320.  In my case, I was 
recording 30 minute segments  starting at the upper part of the band and 
working my way down.  That  may explain why 1206 was my best audio of the 
morning and 1170 was one of  the best (despite having co-channel KPUG) - 
I was recording that part of  the band when everything apparently 
peaked.  That's one of the  drawbacks of timed SDR recordings - you get 
snapshots of parts of the band  at various times.  You can't tell for 
sure if conditions were  consistently good or bad in a particular part of 
the band or if the band  in general was good or bad while you were 
there.  That would be mush  less of an issue for someone DXing in "real 
time" or recording on a  Perseus.

Bruce
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