[IRCA] TP DX for 26 March

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today was my second and last day of DXing at Eld Bay near Olympia, WA.

Conditions weren't quite as good as yesterday, but still interesting.  
As sometimes happens, my experiences were different than what others 
reported.  Gary and Nick both reported signals staying around long after 
sunrise today.   For me, there was a brief enhancement at about 1350, 
followed by a big dropoff in strength, as though someone  closed the DX 
valve.  Stations that were producing reasonable audio at 1355 were 
completely unable to produce even faint time pips at 1400.   Likewise, 
Gary and Dennis had good signals from  Pyongyang-657 but I was barely 
able to pull much of anything through the splatter.

Here's what I came up with from 1305 to 1412.

Really good audio - understandable by a native speaker, if only for a 
little while
890    KBBI, good w/"Democracy Now" pgm o/CJDC until 1359, then legal ID 
and marine wx
1575    VOA briefly good in SEA language 1351-1354, with traces of 
another station in the background

Somewhat OK audio - a native speaker could make out a few words here and 
there
594    JOAK JJ talk briefly F-G 1356, but gone by 1400
639    China, CC talk 1347
747    JOIB, best NHK signal today, CC lessons 1345
891    Thailand, Thai talk 1324, not nearly as good as yesterday
972    Korea fair talk 1327
981    China, fair-poor CC talk 1328
1053     jammer 1335
1566    HLAZ fair CC woman 1354

Bits and pieces of stuff in the splatter
531    Japan very poor //594 1346
567    Japan poor //594 1341
603    Korea, poor KK talk 1345
657    DPRK, tirade barely recognizable in the splatter 1352
693    JOAB bits of talk 1342
738    CC talk fair-poor 1342, probably Taiwan
774    JOUB F-P //747 1346
828    JOBB CC lessons //747 1348 F-P
936    CC talk poor 1348
1359    bits of talk in KKMO splat 1353, probably CNR but couldn't get //
1377    talk sounded CC 1354, probably CNR but couldn't get //

Carriers, some with real or imaginary traces of audio
558 576 612 621 648 666 729 756 783 792 819 864 873 909 945 954 963 1008 
1044 1071 1116 1134 1143 1188 1206 1314 1323 1386 1404 1422 1467 1476 
1503 1512 1539 1557 1584 1593

Bruce Portzer
DXing near Olympia, WA
Winradio Excalibur with 300' E-W DOG(dipole on ground)
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