Hello All,
In a pretty remarkable comeback, what had been a thoroughly mediocre
band prior to 1420 suddenly came to life with a strong sunrise enhancement
from 1425-1450, boosting several Asian mainland stations up to their best
audio of the Fall Season.
The listening session started of at 1300 with the TP "big guns" at
their usual anemic level, struggling to produce much audio through the noise
and domestic splatter. Unusually, there was no mid-session propagation dive
or boost, and the same collection of Asian regulars (594, 648, 657, 738,
747, 774, 972, 1134, 1566 and 1575) were still fading in and out with
lackluster signals right up until 1420. It appeared that another mediocre
late-season session was about to wrap up.
Suddenly, 972-HLCA faded in strongly at 1430, along with a pesky
Chinese co-channel. 738-BEL2 also rose up to be heard, with audio near its best
of the season. 639-CNR1 and 675-Vietnam soon followed, with the latter
having its strongest signal since September. Finally around 1350, the Chinese
YL speech from 936-Anhui provided that station's best signal of the season.
The Japanese NHK stations had a moderate signal boost during this period,
but it was nothing like the weird propagation surge from China.
Unfortunately it was necessary to wrap things up around 1455 when the Chinese were
still strong, so there was no chance to check the other notable Mainland
frequencies like 756, 927, 945, 981, 1035, 1377 and 1593. Maybe one of the SDR
DXers also noticed the late-session China surge from 1430-1445, when
reviewing recordings from that period this morning? Even though nothing new or
rare was heard here, it was the best propagation from China for quite a while.
The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5"
loopstick) and stock Tecsun PL-606 DSP model, 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 Fair-good with music at 1423, // 603
594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Very good with Japanese interview 1444
603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Good with Korean music at 1424
639 CNR1 China Synchros Fair with male-female Chinese speech
at 1445 during sunrise enhancement; inaudible previously
648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Good strength Russian music during
Japanese external program at 1419
_http://www.mediafire.com/?agcrhiec28xv94k_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?agcrhiec28xv94k)
657 Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Fair mumbling Korean tirades at 1418
675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Fair Vietnamese YL speech during sunrise
enhancement; best signal since Sept.
_http://www.mediafire.com/?95600b5t6yqsdu5_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?95600b5t6yqsdu5)
738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Another Chinese station boosted up by
late session surge around 1446
_http://www.mediafire.com/?ygc4ur2afvrd9k0_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ygc4ur2afvrd9k0)
747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Good Japanese talk around 1448
774 JOUB Akita, Japan Losing battle with KTTH splatter at 1415
828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Fair-good Japanese speech around 1350
936 Anhui, China YL speech boosted by late surge at 1450; best
audio of season (recorded on new PL-606)
_http://www.mediafire.com/?1inc1x8orhma9qn_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?1inc1x8orhma9qn)
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Good Korean speech with CC
co-channel at 1431 _http://www.mediafire.com/?j4o84or486nyxpb_
(http://www.mediafire.com/?j4o84or486nyxpb)
1134 KBS3 Hwaseong, S. Korea Good with Korean speech at 1439
during late-session surge
1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair-good Japanese religious pgm 1341
1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Fair Asiatic language speech 1340
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock
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