Re: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake "TA"

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Saul,
 
You probably had a "real TP" heterodyne on 738 at the same time I had the  
"fake TA" audio on the frequency :-) 
 
French audio from 738-Tahiti had never been received here previously  
during our local evening, and was only received once here during our sunrise TP  
peak (in August of last year). This station (like all trans-equatorial DX) 
is SO  much easier to receive on a Pacific Ocean beach, rather than in this 
DU-dead  zone 90 miles inland.
 
73, Gary (in Puyallup, WA)
 
French audio from 738-Tahiti last night around 0502 here:  
_http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ko7748dms5o1jd9) 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/25/2010 4:50:21 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Did have  a very slight het, very briefly, on my south-north wire here at 
Burnt  River, but nowhere close to audio on 738. I was actually hoping for 
Japan,  but no other hets whatsoever.
Saul



suggestinmg  possibly
----- Original Message ----- 
From:  <D1028Gary@xxxxxxx>
To: <ultralightdx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;  <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:08  AM
Subject: [IRCA] 738-Tahiti Audio at 0502... the Fake  "TA"


> Hello All,
>
> All the reports of TA activity  in the east and midwest made me scramble 
> for
> my ICF-2010  spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first
> TA   audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band
>  eagerly, I  noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377  
had
> ghostlike  heterodynes at best, but there was a booming  carrier on 738 
> kHz. Turning
> the  ICF-2010 toward the  Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne,
> convincing  me  that something was coming in from Europe  :-)
>
> Setting up  the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in  
the
>  back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction  
> (for
> Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal  on 738 kHz! After
> recording a few minutes of apparent French, I  checked the band again for
> more  "TA's," finding nothing.  Thinking over this bizarre situation, I
> suddenly  remembered that  the French voices I heard on 738 were the same 
> ones that
>  were  heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then  
it
> became clear that this "TA" was actually Tahiti fading in on its  sunset 
> peak
> (at the same time that Europe would fade in on  its sunrise peak), using a
> European language at the same (reciprocal)  loop bearing as Europe on the 
> 9'
> loop! It's nice to hear  Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second
> time  ever), but  it wasn't exactly the desired result :-)  I hope that 
>  this
> comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to  me.
>
> 73, Gary DeBock
> (in Puyallup, WA)
>
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