I've become more and more curious about the excellent TP reception that I've been experiencing when I'm up 90 minutes or more before dawn.... more than 30 minutes before First Light. I don't think that I completely understand Nick's explanation of this propagation that he uploaded yesterday, but I decided to try REALLY early this AM. My first sweep was three hours before LSR at 1154 UTC turn-on. The lower half of the dial was FULL! From the bottom of the dial until 1161, I had substantial carriers or audio on every single split except 549 and 1125!!!! Of those same channels, 41were in audio, with the vast majority being in listenable audio. By and large, Japan was strongly favored, with the 702 NHK-2 synchros in (rarely heard here) along with 729 JOCK, also not a normal visitor. JOUK on 612 was there, and there were some nice Chinese around, too, including 621 Heilongjiang and several of the low band CNR1s.
When first light and then max dawn arrived, those channels below 1130 were ALL down quite a bit, except JOKR on 954 which always seems to peak late. Of the few remaining real audios, the Chinese seemed to suffer the least damage. In fact, 774 Japan had dropped so low that China was dominating part of the time there. I wonder if this hyper-early opening is a high-latitude thing, only???? I wonder if Nigel P. has ever tried this late in the season at 2 or three hours before LSR??? How 'bout Bill B. in Prescott?? Surely some other old duffer out there needs Flomax?????? Gee, for those of us with, ahem, reason to get up early, it sure was a swell morning! John B. _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com