Re: [IRCA] TP for 17 Jan from Victoria, BC

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Colin, Nick and Kevin,
 
The socially unacceptable hour of 0900 UTC has had some extremely  
acceptable DX recently, with signals almost good enough to make you forget you  are 
losing sleep (and developing a bizarre reputation).
 
After the sunrise TP's started to tank in mid-December, the near-daily  
appearance of 1575-Farda just wasn't enough to satisfy the transoceanic DXing  
urge, so I found myself checking the Asian sunset TP's almost every  morning 
around 0900 UTC. Any expectation of new loggings is unrealistic,  but the 
common TP's can really boom in at times. 594, 738, 747, 774, 828, 972,  1134, 
1287, 1566 and 1575 can all reach "9" levels on great mornings, although  
this is rare. Usually the signals are modest-- but still better than the 
anemic  sunrise variety this month. Like Nick has mentioned, domestic splatter 
is  worse at this inconvenient hour, but the TP's usually have their  
strongest peaks at  differing times, as the sunset gray line spreads across  Asia. 
This gives you about a one hour period to track their progress, with  peak 
signals recently starting around 0900, and fizzling out around 1000.  
Depending upon one's schedule, it a nice option for those going through TP-DXing  
withdrawal symptoms (like me :-)
 
73, Gary
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
In a message dated 1/17/2010 6:48:46 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> I  hate to say it (as others have), but the TP DX really is at night,  

This is what it is like in Hawaii all the time.

Sure, the most  intense stuff is at LSR - but why get up at 6AM
when you can get 80% of the  excitement at 11:00 PM local  time.


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Victoria, British Columbia - Blog  - Coffee DOT BC DOT CA
DXer DOT CA and Bob Harris DOT  Com
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