[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-23

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Hello All,
 
     Despite the poor TP results reported by Richard,  Bill and Nigel, 
there were some vibrant Asian signals here this morning, but the  propagation 
certainly didn't favor the second-tier TP's. Almost all of the  healthy 
signals were from the "big guns," which enjoyed a decent sunrise  enhancement 
after 1400. The strange propagation provided a freakish signal  boost to 
594-JOAK (which once again reached a near-legendary level, like a  week ago), plus 
smaller boosts to 585-JOPG and 747-JOIB. These stations' signals  were 
better than yesterday's levels, but the second-tier TP's like 756-CNR1  and 
1035-CNR1 did not benefit from the sunrise enhancement, and never did  reach 
yesterday's levels. Several Chinese like 738-Taiwan and 936-Anhui had  a 
moderate boost, and 639-CNR1 did manage to come out of the noise around 1430,  as 
did 648-VOR and 657-Pyongyang.  
     The overall results were less than  impressive, although in relation 
to the inland DXers' mediocre TP reports,  it's probably best to be thankful. 
It's suitable to term the morning's  results as low average, with a few 
freakish signals like 594-JOAK running  against the downward trend.
 
     The following were heard on a modified C.Crane SWP  Slider model (7.5" 
loopstick), inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned  passive loop (in 
the rainy back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick)  was used as an SSB 
spotting receiver:
 
558  HLQH  Daegu, S. Korea  Fair Korean speech at 1425 //  603
585  JOPG  Kushiro, Japan  Fair-good Japanese YL  conversation
         at 1406, // 594 (with  smaller sunrise enhancement boost)
594  JOAK  Tokyo, Japan  Booming Japanese YL talk at  1405;
         freakishly strong for  overall mediocre TP propagation
         _http://www.mediafire.com/?cw9fs6oglfttwk8_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?cw9fs6oglfttwk8)  
603  HLSA  Namyang, S. Korea  Good Korean speech 1426 //  558
639  CNR1  China Synchros  (presumed) Threshold audio  at 1430
648  VOR   Razdolnoye, Russia  Weak w/ JJ out  of noise at 1428
657  Pyongyang BS, N. Korea  Tirades thankfully weak at  1434
666  JOBK  Osaka, Japan  Fair Japanese music at 1355, //  594
         (see NHK1 programming note  below)
738  BEL2  Penhu, Taiwan  Fair-good Chinese talk program  1418
747  JOIB  Sapporo, Japan  Good Japanese talk around  1402
774  JOUB  Akita, Japan  Almost buried in KTTH splatter  1415
828  JOBB  Osaka, Japan  Weaker than other NHK2 big  guns 1413
936  Anhui, China  Poor-fair foreign music around 1419
972  HLCA  Dangjin, S. Korea  Good Korean speech (in slop)  at 
         1433; strongest  Korean of morning 
_http://www.mediafire.com/?8e66a351ln68x67_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?8e66a351ln68x67) 
1044  CRI  Jiangsu, China  Fair Japanese program in and out  1357
1134  KBS3  Hwaseong, S. Korea  Fair Korean speech at  1408
1566  HLAZ  Jeju, S. Korea Poor-fair Japanese program  1345
 
The normally talk-oriented NHK1 stations (594-JOAK, 666-JOBK, 891-JOHK,  
1503-JOUK etc.) have a Japanese music program around 1330 UTC on Saturday  
night (on our Saturday morning). This recording of Japanese music was made  on 
594-JOAK at 1355 today  _http://www.mediafire.com/?zo8abfmlsv8hdr4_ 
(http://www.mediafire.com/?zo8abfmlsv8hdr4) 
 
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock
 
 
 
         
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