[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-25

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     Asiatic TP conditions were average at best this  morning here, but as 
usual there were a couple of bright exceptions.  The Russian-slanted 
propagation of the past two days was gone-- the Japanese NHK  regulars were holding 
down their frequencies, but the other Asian "big  guns" generally didn't 
meet expectations, and audio from the Asian "best bets"  on 639, 648, 657, 675 
and 738 was down compared to yesterday. 666-JOBK was  back at a good level 
without a trace of Radio Mayak, and relatively rare  729-JOCK was all alone 
next to 730-CHMJ. 
     Probably the most unusual event was another  full-strength TP fade-in 
when the band had already been written off for dead at  1358, this time from 
972-HLCA and a strong UnID Chinese co-channel.  This was the strongest that 
the 972-UnID Chinese station had ever been heard  here, a strange event for 
a TP morning that had seemed very  average. Unfortunately, it didn't stick 
around long enough to provide any  identity clues.
     The TP-DXing session had started off in a bizarre  way at 0500 UTC (10 
PM local time last night), when vibrant TA alerts from  the East Coast and 
Midwest motivated me to set up the 9' loop in the back yard,  in an 
optimistic attempt to chase some of them (six TA's were received here last  season). 
Nothing much was noted except for a strong heterodyne on 738 kHz, which  
both the ICF-2010 and 9' loop seemed to be showing as coming from the NE  
(European) direction. Some French audio was quickly recorded on the 738  
frequency, which strangely was the only "TA" coming in at the time. Puzzling  over 
this and playing back the MP3, I noticed that the male and female French  
voices sounded suspiciously like the RFO announcers heard on 738-Radio  Tahiti 
during summer DU chasing trips-- then I finally understood that this  was 
no "TA" at all, but really 738-Radio Tahiti, coming in during its  sunset 
skip period! The ICF-2010 and 9' loop's NE bearing  to Europe was at exactly 
the same position as the reciprocal SW  bearing to Tahiti, and Tahiti's sunset 
peak was happening at the same time as  Europe's sunrise peak. It didn't 
seem so funny at the time, but now it  seems totally ludicrous.
 
     The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider  model (7.5" 
loopstick) inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop  (in the back 
yard):
 
558  JOCR  Kobe, Japan  Barely above noise level  with Japanese music, 1321
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Conversational program at  fair-good level, 1323
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Pop music at fair-poor  strength; no CC QRM
639  CNR1  (China)  In and out of audio with poor signals at  best, 
1315-1345
648  VOR Razdolnoye, Russia  Fair Chinese external  program with Russian 
          pop music  and Chinese talk at 1319; weaker than previous two days
657  R. Pyongyang, N. Korea Not much strength to the Korean  tirades today
666  JOBK  Osaka, Japan  All alone (no Radio Mayak)  with fair to good 
strength
         Japanese music at  1352 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?lds53qnz7lqr863_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?lds53qnz7lqr863) 
675  VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Occasional Vietnamese speech at poor level,  1328
729  JOCK  Nagoya, Japan  Weak signal holding down this  splattered 
frequency
738  Radio Tahiti (RFO)  Mahina, Tahiti  Fading in at 0502  during search 
for TA's;
         French YL  fair above 740 slop  
_http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9)    
738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Weaker Chinese pop music signals  this morning, 
         but apparent improvement  in correcting the strongly buzzing 
carrier
747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Best of the Japanese w/  good speech in KXL slop 
1333
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Weak-fair with deep fades from  1315-1345, no CC 
972  TP-Mix  Bizarre, very strong fade-in of HLCA (Dangjin, S.  Korea) and 
an UnID 
         Chinese after  the band was apparently dead at 1358; both of them 
were long
         gone within 2 minutes  _http://www.mediafire.com/?gspkt0ikftp4guh_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?gspkt0ikftp4guh) 
1053  Korean Jammer  Nice vibrant humming (with no CC Restaurant  Music 
         co-channel this  morning) at 1355 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?bn396jfh30d8log_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?bn396jfh30d8log) 
1134  TP-Mix  JOQR and KBS drowning each other out very  successfully at 
1337
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea Fair-poor with Japanese religious  program, 1315
1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand Very poor with occasional bits of  audio, 
1314
 
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock  
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