[IRCA] Arizona TP March 8th

[Brian Rachford <azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx>]

(6-foot tuned loop, 23-foot vertical, Quantum Phaser, RTL-SDR)

Although I did SDR recordings, this was mostly live.  I was getting weak
audio on 774 as early as 3:38am (1038UT).  I was able to phase down
770-KKOB enough to help keep its splatter mostly at bay.  774 peaked at
around 5:10-5:15am (1210-1215UT), but there were long periods of stable
poor-fair audio.  I heard the TOH pips at all three TOH times from 4-6am
(11-13UT).  This is during NHK2's two-hour "culture" block on Sunday
nights, and part of that sounded like a lecture hall recording.  By the
time more lively programming was on, signals had weakened considerably.  I
did some brief checks tuning down a bit, but didn't catch anything below
747 kHz, and I have some indoor QRM in the ~570-670 kHz range which kills
that interval.

But, there was a big pre-sunrise enhancement on the high end just like on
March 5th at around 6:30-6:45am (1330-1345UT).  1566-HLAZ was producing a
signal that was nearly "strong" on my personal rating scale ("strong" being
35-45 dB above background).  There was also weak audio on 1593 briefly, and
other carriers.  This faded out by the 6:53am (1353UT) sunrise, although
774 did briefly almost produce audio at about this time.

I've posted a few recordings at:
https://azswdxing.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/log-am-bcb-march-8th-more-trans-pacific-reception/

Summary:

Fair-good audio: 774, 1566
Marginal-weak audio: 747, 1593
Carriers: 828, 1422, 1467, 1557, 1575, 1602

Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ
azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx
http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/
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