First noted Tonga with quite a good signal, island music and talk before 0600UT.
Then, after 1300UT quite a lot of Japanese, including NHK1 on 946 and NHK2 on 1386 in addition to the larger guns, but 1593 was CNR1, and maybe Tagalog on 837, and Korean on 657....then there were commercial Japanese such as 1242 1314 1332 1179 954 918 etc. In addition, there was a preacher on 1611, but couldn't hear anything definite for // on 1629; just a rumble. This all lasted until about 1400UT, when all Asians, except the big guns, wandered off, leaving a number of down unders, and by 1440UT, it was all down under, most not too strong, but some of which just wouldn't quit.
DUs continued popping up erratically until well after 1530UT; figured that everything was over by 1550UT, but no, 1116, 1548 were still there, just not regularly, but heck , 1548 particularly just wouldn't go; at 1631UT, it was as strong as the 1550 domestics (admittedly, not strong there), and finally sailed away, I think, at 1700UT with the ABC news fanfare heard weakly, three hours after local sunrise, with the terminator out past Hawaii by this time.
So, actually, not a bad morning. I'm surprised that DUs didn't make more of an appearance at Rockaway judging by that performance. However, they weren't really pounding in, and domestic interference after sunrise is fairly weak at Tofino, so it might have been a signal to interference issue, plus equipment difference.
best wishes, Nick At 15:11 29-03-17, Donald Barnes via IRCA wrote:
Thankfully, this morning exhibited a bit of an uptick in propagation conditions. Japan remained the star of the show. I listened from 1320 until about 1500.567 JOIK (I think) with weak audio male and female speaking in presumed JJ 594 JOAK with weak audio and male speaking 693 JOAB weak audio with deep fades, female speaking 747 JOIB weak audio, man speaking 774 JOUB booming in with EE lesson, male and female conducting lesson 828 JOBB with male and female conducting EE lesson at decent signal levels 1566 HLAZ with hymns, decent signal on peaks Asian hets were received on 558, 639, 702, 738, 972, 981, 1089, 1179 and 1242 DU hets were received on 612, 702, 891 and 1548Time to head back to Colorado and look forward to Hawaii next month. Meeting Gary DeBock and discussing radios, antennas and DX remains one of the highlights of the trip!73 & Best of DX Craig Barnes Tecsun PL-310, 3.5 in FSL Rockaway Beach
Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BCCanada
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