Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-12

[Walter Salmaniw <canswl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Now that is indeed VERY interesting, Gary.  You saw my report which was
essentially 100% DU on many frequencies!  This occurred with my
predominantly Asian corner-fed loop, and a DU oriented ALA 100.  I'll look
forward to tomorrow for sure!  ...Walt

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:23 AM, <D1028Gary@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>     Yesterday's comatose TP propagation gave way to  some of the strangest
> Asian conditions ever observed here. Whereas Nick had  all-DU propagation
> this morning, here it was strangely slanted toward the  Japanese, with a
> minor Korean presence. The Chinese were shut out  completely, which led to
> some
> bizarre receptions on certain frequencies.  It certainly seemed like
> another
> example of "chordal mode" propagation,  explained by Mark Connelly and Gary
> Deacon on the Ulralightdx list two days  ago.
>     The biggest surprise was tuning in to 738 kHz  around 1355 and finding
> a station in (apparent) Japanese all alone, without a  trace of BEL2 or
> HKLG-- the usual occupants of the frequency. This mystery  station had the
> frequency all to itself for about 3 minutes, prior to the 1400  TOH. On 594
> kHz
> a moderate-strength JOAK was joined by a co-channel at  1358, as the fairly
> rare 10 kw KBS1 station apparently made  its first appearance of the new
> season. The 1400 TOH recording of 594-JOAK  produced a weaker set of time
> pips
> before the 3 + 1 NHK pips, along with  Korean-sounding speech from the same
> female voice observed last November, both  before and after the 1400 TOH.
> 1134 kHz had a vibrant JOQR all alone on the  frequency, fighting the 1130
> domestic splatter without any Asiatic  competition. It usually is a poor
> third
> to KBS and CNR1 this time of year  here, and was first heard alone like
> this
> during the weird "chordal mode"  propagation two days ago, as explained by
> Mark. Another strange signal  was weak, lengthy instrumental music dominant
> on 639 kHz around 1350,  without any sign of CNR1's usual male-female
> Chinese, and not // 594 kHz.  Although there were no ID clues or parallels
> to
> check, this may have  been the 50 kw KBS3 station (possibly heard here last
> week, under CNR1),  showing up with the same instrumental music format. By
> 1407
> there was a mix on  738 kHz, as apparent Korean from HKLG joined the UnID
> Japanese-- still  with no sign of Taiwan's Chinese speech or pop music. The
> mystery stations  on 738, 594 and 639 kHz this morning were not strong, but
> were easily  audible with headphones (which are recommended for MP3
> listening). Even though  most of this morning's TP-DXing action was at
> modest signal
> levels, compared to  yesterday's near-comatose band, it was a pretty
> thrilling session.
>
>
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