[IRCA] TPs: Orcas Island Nov. 11th

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

This is another one of those days where its a privilege to TP DX and 
it was even better than yesterday. I happened to get up two hours 
before dawn today (1300) and DXed for an hour at thatr time.... it 
was like September.  GREAT JJ signals in some cases and a number of 
JJ stations unheard in months. On my second run a half-hour before 
dawn to half hour past, some of the stronger JJs were less strong and 
some of the weak JJs were gone, but they were more than made up by 
CCs and KKs and a few RRs. Combining the two sessions, I had TP 
audio, often GOOD audio on all but a dozen channels below 1440..... 
counting the zero ending channels that fall in the 9 kHz pattern, 
540, 630, 720, etc.

It was a wonderful morning.   The most interesting stuff:

549 was Russian, big time at 1320 and still doing decently at 1440, 
now with echo!

720, briefly at 1315 was JJ. The only one listed is a 1 kW JOIL 
feeder station on the northern tip of Kyushe.... and I'm certain of 
the language.  Later, this was a jumble, still later it was CNR2

837 was JJ: JOQK, Niigatta all morning, strong at 1330

990 was JORK, NHK1 Kochi, a rare but not unknown visitor in the early session

1278 was JOFR Fukuoka at 1345

1458 was in again at murmur level at 1500 and I was hanging on every 
mur... I was rewarded by two sets of Chinese-style pips, about 6 
seconds apart. One was almost certainly Nei Menggu, but the other one????

Gosh, it was a fun morning and would have been funner at Grayland!

John B.

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