Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-22
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Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-22



Hi Walt,
 
Thanks for the Masset report, we are all eager to read your daily TP  (and 
TA) reports once your DXpedition team gets fully set up!
 
This morning was fairly average for TP reception here in  Puyallup, with a 
couple of exceptions. 1044 kHz had an interesting mix of  CRI's Japanese and 
a co-channel (that sounded like Korean to me), but there  wasn't any KBS 
parallel available to check at the time (and the ones  that I was trying for 
wouldn't have worked anyway, according to Chuck :-) Dennis  heard the same 
1044 mix at Grayland this morning.
 
Your European, Middle East and African TA-DX in Masset always sounds  very 
exotic in this mediocre DXing location, from which Guy has temporarily  
bailed. About this time last year most of the TP-DXers were eagerly reading  the 
daily Asian DX reports from you and Nick in Victoria, and John on Orcas  
Island. They are really missed, although several of us have attempted to post  
our own. Unfortunately, Puyallup is far from prime DXing territory,  and if 
it were not for the bizarre 9' box loop in the back yard, I  would probably 
be limited to receiving the same "big guns" over and  over. Good luck to 
all of your team!
 
73, Gary      
 
 
In a message dated 9/22/2010 2:33:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
canswl@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Hi,  Gary!  Up here in Masset, reception was unusual here.  The worst  
reception since last Saturday morning.  The BOGs died early today, being  
replaced by the ALA 100 for best TP reception....this in itself was very  unusual. 
 The big news was last night:  Best TA reception since  Friday night.  
Many, many TAs with the best for me being 1476 Cotonou  (Benin, Africa) in 
French at almost excellent levels, but as usual for TAs  this would fade rapidly 
up and down.  Not sure which direction conditions  are heading.  We'll be 
active until Monday morning in any case.   NHK2 signed off the past 2 mornings 
at 14:40.  About 50% of the stations  give an ID locally then, with the 
rest just a network NHK ID.  Good  fun!  The hot TA performer is the Wellbrook 
array.  Andy Ilkin will  be pleased to hear this, although it continues to 
underperform in a major way  in the mornings.  More in the coming days!  
..........Walt Salmaniw,  Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM, <_D1028Gary@xxxxxxxx 
(mailto:D1028Gary@xxxxxxx) > wrote:

Hello All,!

It was a morning of fairly average  September TP propagation  here,
generally following Nigel's  description of the regular Asians at  decent 
strength,
but the  second-tier TP stations having weaker signals. As  usual,  however,
there were major exceptions to the script, including a  strong TP mix on 
1044
kHz (which Dennis also heard at Grayland, on  his  E100), and a bizarre S9
fade-in of 648-Voice of Russia at  1356 (after the TP propagation had
apparently fizzled out, and my  ICF-2010 spotting receiver had been shut 
off). The
"best bet" Asian  lineup  from 639- 675 kHz (639-China, 648-VOR, 657-North
Korea,  666-JOBK, and  675-Vietnam) was back to regular decent strength  
after
some weakness yesterday,  and 738-Taiwan was restored to its  normal 
strength
(along with a  rough-sounding carrier).

1044  kHz was the most interesting frequency of the morning, as I heard  
(and
recorded) the same strong TP mix that Dennis received at  Grayland.  Around
1348 there was a real battle on the frequency,  apparently  with both Korean
and Japanese voices. The Japanese is  undoubtedly CRI's  foreign broadcast
to Japan, but the apparent  Korean was a mystery. I searched  for a KBS
parallel to check, but  none were at decent strength at the time (972  and 
1134 kHz
were in  fades). Dennis' Grayland report of pop Asian  music mixing  with
China (in Japanese) on 1044 kHz gives additional evidence  that  this was
probably the KBS station that we both heard, since Asian pop  music is a 
standard
KBS format. We probably won't ever be sure, but  the 10  kw 1044 kHz KBS
station would be an all-time new Ultralight  TP catch,  if confirmed by 
either of
us in the future. Dennis,  thanks again for your very  useful Grayland
reports!

The  other strange occurrence here was a full-strength fade in of  648-VOR
right after the band had apparently died at 1355 (with the  back yard in  
full
sunlight). My ICF-2010 spotting receiver had  already been taken  inside,
and I was in the process of wrapping up  when I  heard booming music 
signals on
the "barefoot" SWP, which had  fortunately  been left on 648 kHz. I rushed
over to the 9' loop and  recorded an S9  signal of Russian music, right 
after
every TP  frequency had been  written off as "dead." This was bizarre  
enough
to fully awaken  any half-asleep TP-DXer.

The  following were heard on a C.Crane SWP model (7.5" loopstick)
inductively  coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the back  
yard):

558  JOCR  Kobe, Japan  Fair strength  with Japanese music  around 1307
585  JOPG  Kushiro, Japan  Fair-poor with deep fades around  1309, // 594
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Good strength Japanese conversation  at  1308
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Fair KBS music program  w/CC QRM, 1311
639  CNR1  (China)  Fair to good  music and Chinese speech at  1319
648  VOR  Razdolnoye,  Russia  Good Chinese program  signals, then weird
S9 fade-in  after band was "dead"
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657  Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Angry shouts from YL  (?) back at full  strength
666  JOBK  Osaka, Japan  Fair-good for most of  morning with  NHK1 talk
675  VOV  Hanoi, Vietnam  Good strength In and out  with Vietnamese talk
738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Good Chinese pop music  signals o/KK at  1332
747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Strong Japanese talk over  KXL  splatter, 1318
756  CNR1  (China)  Fair strength  at 1333 with Chinese music  program
774  JOUB  Akita,  Japan Good strength but no match for KTTH  splatter
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Radio English Conversation program  at  fair-good
strength  around  1326
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891  JOHK  Sendai, Japan  Poor-fair Japanese talk program at  1335, // 594
972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Fair  Korean music program  around 1320
1035  CNR1 (China)  Good  strength speech and music but deep  fades, 1345
1044  TP-Mix  A strong mix of Japanese (from CRI) and  apparent Korean  at
1348;  KBS // not  available to check at the time, but apparent
music
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1053  Korean Jammer  Weaker than usual this morning, with CC  competition
1053  UnID Chinese  Back with the "restaurant  music," in and out  at fair
level
(thanks  to Dennis for his Grayland report on this  ID-adverse
station)
1134  TP-Mix  Standard September  shootout of JOQR and KBS at good  level
1566  HLAZ  Jeju,  S. Korea  Fair-good with Japanese  religious program, 
1301
1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand  Asiatic language program at  poor level,
1300

73 and Good DX,
Gary  DeBock




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