[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-15

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     In agreement with Richard, Asian signals seemed a  little stronger 
here today than yesterday, although it was a typical late-season  session where 
"big gun" TP's dominated. Second-tier Asians never seemed to  get out of 
the noise, and the band folded early (around 1515).
     594, 648, 657, 738, 747, 828, 936, 972, 1134 and  1566 had fair to 
good audio at times, although like yesterday there wasn't much  of a sunrise 
enhancement boost. The big news was finally hearing a pure  carrier and audio 
signal from 738-BEL2 (Taiwan Fisheries), which has  apparently fixed its 
raspy carrier and throbbing hum. A pure 738 kHz Asian TP  carrier was almost 
always a sure sign of HLKG here previously, but  now both BEL2 and HLKG have 
clean signals, so this "ID tip" is no longer  valid.
     657-Pyongyang's muffled audio continues to  get worse, however. At 
1507 a strong Pyongyang signal had almost all the  high-frequency audio cut 
off, making it sound like the Korean YL's  tirades were being impeded by a 
mouth muffler. DXing occasionally does  provide such unexpected humor.
 
     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 rainy 
back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB  spotting 
receiver:
 
558  HLQH  Daegu, S. Korea  Fair music at 1418, // 603
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Good interval music at 1429  during
          Japanese interview  program  
_http://www.mediafire.com/?9lpz63ea4vaalsw_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?9lpz63ea4vaalsw) 
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Fair-good music around  1419
639  CNR1  China Synchros  Fair male-female  Chinese at 1511
648  VOR   Razdolnoye, Russia  Strong Russian disco  music 
          during Chinese  program at 1442  
_http://www.mediafire.com/?bge9x1ovsvlj8ui_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?bge9x1ovsvlj8ui) 
657  Pyongyang BS, N. Korean Strong signal, but missing  the
          high audio  frequencies (thankfully, muffling the tirades)
          _http://www.mediafire.com/?w91idt61rcll79o_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?w91idt61rcll79o)  
666  JOBK  Osaka, Japan  Poor-fair Japanese talk at  1414
738  BEL2   Penghu, Taiwan  Fair drama-type  Chinese speech
          at 1448; transmitter  issues apparently corrected
          _http://www.mediafire.com/?9g42jc02c3fgd2g_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?9g42jc02c3fgd2g) 
747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Good Japanese speech at  1502
774  JOUB  Akita, Japan  Losing the battle with KTTH  splatter
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Fair-good Japanese in splatter  1455
936  Anhui, China  Fair Chinese speech at 1421
972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Very good Korean speech at  1510
1134  KBS3  Hwaseong, S. Korea  Good male-female  speech 1429
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Good Japanese religious program  1341
1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand Poor-fair Asiatic language  1340
 
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock
 
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