[IRCA] October 31 2015 Victoria B.C. TP's

["R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a page of log notes but a more Halloween inspired collection
of observations may be more appropriate.
Listened from 1302 until 1420 UTC and then checked in again at 1530 UTC.

The big NHK guns were clearly spooked by today's ionospheric ghostliness -
NHK strong arms were little more than ephemeral illusions on 594, 747, 774
and 828
but would occasionally appear out of nothing and glow brightly for a few
minutes at a time.

What left me shivering was Happy FM owning 558khz and 603khz the entire
morning
from Korea. There were some seance level whispers on 531 khz at quite a few
passes
that sounded entirely kiwi -- which is something I do not hear often.
612khz often materialized
with the stereotypical "G'day mate" style patter.

Despite the hallucination  that South Korea owned the dial, there were
sightings
of content on frequencies like 1044, 963, 1323 at times - often at good
levels -
assuming China.

Maybe this is normal for this time of the year but it was abundantly clear
that
NHK and Japan in general decided to cower under the covers and let the
Korean
peninsula shine through.

Receivers: Drake D8 and Icom R71 (resurrected from a local Ham's discard
pile - and
an awesome radio!)

Antennas: W/NW Flag with DIY Vactrol remote termination controller
and Wellbrook ALA100

-- 

*Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com
<http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and
DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV |
Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada*
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