[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-19

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     Finally facing the reality of eroding Asian  propagation during the 
west coast sunrise period, a decision was made to  check out TP signal 
strength during the Asian sunset period (0930-1100  UTC). Based on the TP-DXing 
results of the past three seasons here, this early  morning propagation path 
was known to become superior for Asian reception  around the middle of 
November-- and it was time to check it out. This was  also the propagation path 
which provided the original three TP receptions  on a humble analog SRF-59 back 
in November of 2007, to kick off the Ultralight  Radio movement.
     As expected, Asian signals were far more vibrant  during this early 
morning session than during "sunrise enhancement," three  hours later. The 
"big gun" TP's on 594, 747, 828, 972, 1134 and 1566 really  sounded healthy, 
and some other Asians on 558, 657, 738 and 1053  were rising up to be heard. 
Several "big gun" Asians had nice signals on the  "barefoot" SWP Slider 
model. Although nothing new or rare was received,  indications were that overall 
propagation was not at its best this morning, and  that this path may yet 
provide a few DXing surprises this season. To  confirm the superiority of this 
"night owl" TP propagation, a sunrise DXing  session was also held this 
morning, during which the anemic TP's seemed to  stay in relative hibernation. 
A few modest signals were heard from "big guns"  like 594-JOAK and 828-JOBB 
around 1500, but the difference in signal strength  was striking. West coast 
SDR users may wish to check out this Asian sunset  propagation, which seems 
almost good enough to compensate for the lack of  sleep that live DXers 
face.
 
     The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider  model (7.5" 
loopstick) inductively coupled to a 3' sided PVC tuned passive loop  (bedside) for 
the 0930-1100 period, and a 9' sided PVC loop for the 1500-1515  period (in 
the back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as  an SSB 
spotting receiver:
 
558  JOCR  Kobe, Japan  Fair-good with music at 0958; no  sign
          of HLQH  (usually dominant around sunrise)
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Good with Japanese NHK  news 1000
648  VOR  Razdolnoye, Russia  Poor-fair Korean speech at  1508
657  Pyongyang BS, N. Korea  Equally fair signals (from  ragged-
          sounding  transmitter) at both 1033 and 1511
738  BEL2  Penghu, Taiwan  Fair-good Chinese speech  around
          1047 (with apparent  HLKG co-channel)
747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Strongest of the Japanese during  the
          early session;  apparent news at 1002
774  JOUB  Akita, Japan  Good Japanese in KTTH splatter  1018
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Stronger during early session,  but
          fair signal at 1501  with local "Kansai" (Osaka area) news
          during sunrise  session 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?xdeysa05vas5ed8_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?xdeysa05vas5ed8) 
936   Anhui, China (presumed)  Threshold audio around  1507
972   HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Good Korean male-female  speech
          around 1025
1053  JOAR  Nagoya, Japan  (presumed) Weak Japanese  rising
          above noise level  during early session at 1010
1134  JOQR  Tokyo, Japan  Fair-good during Japanese  sunset
          period with  animated Japanese (1041); no sign of KBS3
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea  Good religious music during  early-
          session Korean  program at 0945 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?8agq5z4xg4f7jno_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?8agq5z4xg4f7jno) 
1575  VOA  Ban Rassom, Thailand  Late fade-in with fair  Asiatic
          language speech at  1517; also fair during early session at 1054
 
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock
 
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