[IRCA] TP from Victoria 8 May 2012
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[IRCA] TP from Victoria 8 May 2012

Two Asian audios heard here this morning at 1200UT: HLAZ-1566 of course with fairly good audio (also had audio after pattern change at 1230UT), and CRI turned up on 1323 with recognizable audio.. music leading up to chimes on hour. Any Asian audio in May at home is pretty unusual., and everything else was carriers, mostly mid to high band. 

best wishes,

Nick

At 20:50 08-05-12, Guy Atkins wrote:

Hi Fellas,
I'm across from the Westport harbor, checking email on my laptop and searching in vain for a coffee shop! The only one I know of in Westport changed hands, and then closed down :^( Fortunately I lugged my <http://tinyurl.com/7x2ad24>Tassimo T65 "single-serve" latte maker to Grayland.. It's as valuable as the receivers in my DXpedition tent! Still, I'd rather be typing on my laptop inside a coffee shop rather than from the driver's seat in my wife's Ford Explorer.
I got the second FLG100LN Delta Flag antenna put up yesterday, oriented 310 degrees as a complement to the 240 degrees DU Delta Flag. Midday checks on locals and regionals showed some amazing directivity differences. Some frequencies had nulls of 55-60+ dB when I switched between antennas! Because of this, I was all set to expect any TPs on the NW antenna, and DUs on the SW antenna. Nope! Either there were skewed arrival angles of the TPs due to the disturbed geo-conditions, or the antennas' patterns are getting messed up from being too close to each other. However, I don't think that happens with these loops... only if one or both are verticals. All the signals noted, both TP and DU were best on the SW delta Flag. This morning, I never noticed that effect when all antennas seem to lose directivity around sunrise, and switching between them makes no difference...the SW loop was the best. (BTW, both antennas are identical except for orientation.)
It was definitely Asiatics on the high band this morning. HLAZ-1566 was very strong. DUs were coming in mid- and low-band late (post sunrise) but all fairly weak. This is only my initial observation, as I have all my extended top of the hour and bottom of the hour recordings still to go through. From my quick, after sunrise checks, the mid tier JJs were in with fair to good audio (JOWF, JOSF, JOHR, etc.). The DUs had weird fade in, fade out patterns that were very rapid. Signals went from inaudible to good levels within 10-15 seconds, repeatedly.
I have a full night of "extended top of the hour" (XX:58-XX:08) and bottom of the hour (XX:29-XX:31) Perseus recordings to go through with Jaguar. BTW, Bill, it was Mauno who told us about this software and gave a URL in his email of April 13th. As I mentioned in yesterday's email though, Ilpo has now locked down the program and it will only work on licensed PCs. That is, since Jaguar is not open source or freeware yet, the distribution is virtually nil... just those few DXers who are using and giving feedback for it. I'm the sole "North American Branch Office" right now. As Mauno knows, it's not for everyone; Jaguar's interface and usage is totally different from the stock Perseus software. 

Attached is a photo of the DX Central tent and the two loops.
Gotta run... time to serve myself a latte and start listening via the wonders of the "DXer's TIVO"... aka Perseus WAV recordings. 

73, Guy

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