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Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-22
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-22
- From: D1028Gary@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:56:54 EDT
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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