Re: [IRCA] TP 27 Feb; Victoria version

[d1028gary@xxxxxxx]

Hi Nick,

It was great to see you (and Theo, Chuck, Guy, Tom, Bruce, Phil and others) at Bruce's get-together on Saturday. At least for me, the best aspect of these meetings is the chance to reassure each other that we are still halfway normal individuals, despite our tendency to sacrifice sleep and comfort to chase the same big-gun TP's over and over each morning.  

The band was full of promising low-band TP signals here around 1415 this morning (594, 603, 738, 747, 828, 972, 1134, 1566 and 1575), but without any sunrise enhancement boost the Asians soon fizzled out, one by one. 972-HLCA and 1566-HLAZ were the sole survivors after 1500 (both with fair signals, in and out), but they soon bit the dust as well.

73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
C.Crane SWP 7.5" Slider loopstick Ultralight +
8" Medium Wave FSL antenna (DXing indoors) 

                                                                                                                       


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 1:42 pm
Subject: [IRCA] TP 27 Feb; Victoria version


Signals were reasonable on the low band when I tuned in at 1430UT, 
but mostly went downhill after that.  NHK2 had yet another s/off time 
today, starting the music box at 1455UT

pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least
briefly):

not quite


reasonable audio  at  times during the period (much of it understandable by a
native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise):


594 JOAK instrumental mx 1443UT, JJ talk at a lower level a few minutes earlier
747 JOIK EE lessons //774 1429UT
774 JOUB EE lessons  1429UT
828 JOBB EE lessons //774 1430UT



not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or 
noise could be
understood by a native speaker:

639 CNR1 woman in CC //6125 1434UT
972 HLCA woman in KK 1450UT; best signal noted on this one this 
morning, so there was "some" enhancement


Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by
cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music) :

567 JOIK man in JJ //594 1431UT
612 4QR? man talking DU EE inflection 1435UT
891 woman talking, not //594, 1432UT
1116  4BC?  woman talking DU EE inflection 1437UT
1566 traces of mx 1430UT, never much better than this.

Strongish het, no audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter):

558 756 864 1008 1017 1098 1575




best wishes,

Nick

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