Re: [IRCA] TPs on October 18 - Grayland Edition

[neilkaz <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great this sounds quite promising and I'll await reading about more logs when you play back the recordings.  73 KAZ

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Oct 18, 2014 2:34 PM
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>Subject: [IRCA] TPs on October 18 - Grayland Edition
>
>Here's my initial Grayland report from this morning.
>
>Conditions were quite good for the Japanese and Koren stations, which 
>managed to populate most of the 9 kHz channels this morning. Chinese 
>were not as numerous as in past DXpeditions, and consisted mainly of the 
>usual powerhouses like 639 945 981 963 1323 etc., plus a few local and 
>provincial stations like 1089, 1206, and 1422. There were also a few 
>Taiwanese stations.
>
>There was no sunrise enhancement to speak of.  Conditions at 1400 UTC 
>were pretty much like they were at 1200, when things were already moving 
>along at a good pace.  Many of the signals stayed around until well past 
>sunrise.  The 972 Korean was the final survivor, still producing 
>readable audio at 1706 UT (10:07 PDT) before finally fading out for 
>good!  Several others stayed in until past 1600.
>
>As I mentioned, Japanese were in abundance, including many second and 
>third tier stations: 648 is now dominated by JOIG now that VOice of 
>Russia is gone.  The NHK1 stations on 639 and 675 were also noted.  One 
>of the AFN outlets on 1575 was mixing with VOA.  The STV outlet on 909 
>was heard //1440.  One of the Japanese on 1116 was also in well.
>
>I had three stations on 1044  - Korea, CRI, and one other.  Also Vietnam 
>or Myanmar on 729, judging from how the language sounded.
>
>At 1408 this morning KTKN-930 Ketchikan was briefly the strongest signal 
>o the dial.
>
>There was a mix of Taiwan and Korea on 711 that  was often stronger than 
>KIRO.
>
>There's more, but it's buried in our SDR recordings.
>
>Bruce
>
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