Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-31

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is interesting, fellas.  Morning after morning, it appears that there
was better activity well before dawn.  This is in contrast to the past
several years, when there was very often a good dawn/post dawn enhancement.
Non-existent, it would appear this season for the most part!  ........Walt

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:51 PM, <D1028Gary@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>     This morning's Asian propagation  sounded quite positive well before
> sunrise (around 1300)--  probably the same propagation bringing the "big
> gun"
> TP  signals to Nigel. Most of Nigel's TP's also had some audio here around
> that  time, and both 738-BEL2 and 936-Anhui were in audio around 1305. At
> 1308 there was a sudden swoon in Asian propagation,  however, as all TP's
> collapsed well down into the noise until just  before 1400.
>     After 1400 the band became like Nick's  mediocre situation, with a few
> "big guns" managing weak audio through the noise  until the band collapsed
> (around 1450). Sunrise enhancement didn't restore the  "big gun" TP's to
> their earlier (1300 UTC) strength, although a  few different Asian stations
> joined the anemic group during this  period (558-HLQH, 648-VOR,
> 657-Pyongyang
> and 1575-VOA). Overall results were  nothing to shout about, with all the
> vibrant TP signals seeming to fizzle out  well before sunrise. In the same
> way,
> Asian propagation during this last  week of October seems to have dropped
> off seriously, after a promising start  earlier in the month.
>
> 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).
> A  modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver:
>
> 558  HLQH  Daegu, S. Korea  (presumed) Poor-fair music at  1433,
>          but no 603 //  available for ID confirmation
> 594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Fair-good Japanese speech at  1303
> 648  VOR  Razdolnoye, Russia  Poor threshold (JJ?) audio at  1437
> 657  Pyongyang BS,  N. Korea  Poor-fair obsolete music  through
>         domestic splatter at 1435
> 738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Fair male Chinese  speech at 1304
> 747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Fair-good Japanese  program at 1305
> 828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Fair signals in and out of noise at  1302
> 936  Anhui, China  Poor-fair Chinese speech at 1306; signal
>         collapsed at 1308, and  never came back
> 972    HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Fair-good Korean  speech at 1300
> 1134  KBS3  Poor-fair music in domestic splatter 1428
> 1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Good Japanese religious program  1301
> 1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand  Threshold speech audio  1444
>
> 73 and Good DX,
> Gary DeBock
>
>
>
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