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

["Kevin S" <satya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After another poor morning, it's sounding better!  Perhaps think of it as
having a new baby - ya simply gotta get up for the "feeding"...

It looks like sunset in Tokyo is currently around 0800 UTC (0753 per one
site).  So, it appears to be a post-sunset boost, since 0900-1000 UTC is
one to two hours past sunset - perhaps that layer of the ionosphere around
the transmitter has to completely dissolve for the TPs to get through this
time of year?  Korean sunset is a couple hours earlier, so Korean "prime
time" should start at around 11 pm our time and run through midnight. 
And, DU's are a couple hours after Tokyo.  So, in theory, we should be
staying up all night!!!

Kevin

> 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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