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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