Re: [IRCA] TP's for 08-07-08

["John H. Bryant" <bjohnorcas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellas,

No TP DXing for me yesterday morning or this... Yesterday, it was "a 
quick run ashore" for some tile for the last part of our house (my 
shower). That meant being at the ferry landing 7 miles away well 
before dawn.... its tourist season.  Turned out to be the ferry ride 
from hell... ferry broke down half way to port (30 minutes out) and 
we floated at sea for quite a while. Eventually a massive sea-going 
tug arrived, along with one Coast Guard helicopter and two Coast 
Guard Harbor Patrol vessels (armed) and we eventually made it ashore, 
only three hours late. It was actually fun! Of course, many of the 
the tourists were going crazy, on cell phones trying to change 
airline reservations out of Seattle, etc... but, hey.

So then, a quick run 50 miles south toward Seattle, load the tile, a 
fast trip back and I just made it into the line for the 2:30PM ferry. 
It was running 45 minutes late, of course.... the place was chaos 
having one large ferry (out of 5 in the whole system) still out of 
service, so 45 minutes late wasn't bad. As we were finally loading, 
with me in the very back of the line, we got about 2/3 loaded and 
then everything stopped! There was all sorts of to-ing and fro-ing by 
staff and finally they announced that the big box semi-trailer 
truck  - that everyone could see, stopped just starting to enter the 
ferry - had gouged his diesel fuel tank on an obstruction and dumped 
the entire load on the dock and ferry. Sooooooo, it took 2 more hours 
to clean up the ferry and dock, back every one in line behind the 
truck off the dock so that they could haul the truck backwards out of 
the way.  The 2:30 ferry left at 5:30PM and rather than arriving home 
at 1:30PM after my "fast run ashore" I made it just after 7:00 PM. 
Exhausted, having started the trip at 4:45AM.

On the other hand, it was a beautiful sunny day, never getting above 
75 degrees; the surroundings were beautiful; I made some new friends 
and got re-acquainted with some old ones; Like all locals, I always 
carry an entertaining book when traveling on a ferry, as well.... So, 
it was not at all a bad day, BUT now you know why I didn't DX TPs 
yesterday morning and overslept this morning.  Today, will likely go 
more nearly as planned!

John B.
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Rcvrs: WiNRADiO 313e, Eton e1, Ultralights
Antennas: Two 70' x 100' Conti Super Loops, West and Northwest




At 01:10 PM 8/7/2008 +0000, you wrote:


> --
> Good Morning:
>
> Listened from 1157-1307.  Upper channels were much better here than the lower
> channels.  HLAZ 1566 with big swings in signal strength.  More 
> carriers heard this
> morning too.
>
> 774         Japan, JOUB very weak at 1202 with woman in Japanese.  Weak with
>                splatter at 1224.
>
> 1566        Republic of Korea, HLAZ huge carrier weak audio at 1207.  Good at
>                 1237 with choir music.  Signal peaked at S-9+20 db at 1245
>
> 1575        Thailand, VOA weak at 1542 with man in Asian language.
>
> 1593        China, CNR1 very weak at 1511 with Chinese. Weak aT 1259.
>
> Carriers & levels:
>
> 6)           279
>
> 5)           738-828-1575-
>
> 4)           594-702-891-1008-1386-1422-1467-1503-
>
> 3)           567-639-648-657-693-729-819-1035-1071-1098-1107-1116-1134-
>               1215-1368-1377-1395-1602-
>
> 2)          558-603-873-945-972-1017-1053-1278-1305-1404-1611
>
> Dennis,
> Salmon Creek, WA
> JRC 545 ewe NW
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