Re: [IRCA] TP for 7 Dec from Victoria, BC

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello Nick, 
 
Thanks very much for your detailed morning TP reports, which are very  
interesting here (and also thanks to Bill, in Arizona).
 
The TP propagation around 0930 UTC early this morning was quite  good here, 
with occasional strong audio on the powerhouse frequencies of 594,  738, 
747 and 972 kHz. Unfortunately nothing new showed up, however. This  morning 
brought severe winter weather in the back yard, making  it awkward to set up 
the large loop antennas. A quick band check indoors on  the modified 
ICF-2010 at 1510 UTC didn't reveal anything spectacular, though.  Your summary for 
the morning certainly sounds accurate, in  describing my local propagation.
 
One minor surprise here recently was the sudden fade-in of 1503-JOUK around 
 1515 on 12-4 (Friday), bringing with it a weak TP co-channel for a few 
seconds.  Listening repeatedly to the MP3 with high-sensitivity headphones 
indicates that  the co-channel's language was Korean, not Chinese. It's 
occasional surprises  like this that provide some rare DXing motivation, during this 
typically  mediocre December doldum month :-)
 
73, Gary  
 
     
 
 
In a message dated 12/7/2009 8:36:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nhp@xxxxxxxx writes:

Another  morning where the gods of absorption held sway.   Checked the band 
 at 1500, 1530 and 1600UT.   The latter time showed only 1575 with  audio 
traces, while the earlier times showed occasional mumbling on 828 and  774 
(possibly parallel, it was that bad), 1134 possibly //972, and 1575.   612 
could have been 4QR with the inflection of talk, and the fact that there  was 
no Japanese, or anything else on 594.

Looking over the SDR-14 files  produced better conditions at 0800, with 567 
// 594, though not earth  shattering by any means.  And did catch the V. of 
Russia chimes and  fanfare in the splatter on 648 at 1200UT, but that was 
it.

best  wishes,

Nick







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Nick  Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada   

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