Hello All, Like everyone else has reported, the TP's certainly were fun to chase this morning-- and they seemed especially vibrant here. Continuing to investigate the mid-band frequencies with the 9' box loop, I found the always-weak 1107-HLAV with Korean, at language recognition level around 1416-- quite a rare event. China-1125 was also there, but not at the unusually strong level of yesterday. I decided to check 1134 kHz at 1420 to see which station would be dominant, and found the frequency booming-- CNR1 sounded like a local, but KBS was right behind, and JOCR was there below them. A real TP "graveyard" channel (or as John would say, a "United Nations"), from which I was fortunate to get an MP3 (which I plan to upload to dxer.ca and Ultralightdx). Since I had never yet logged Asiatic TP's on 1017 kHz, I checked that frequency at 1424, and found both Korean talk and music from a presumed CNR Foreign Service, and also a strong co-channel which apparently was the NHK2 Radio English Conversational lesson noted by Dennis (although I didn't check the //, so all I have is the MP3 to review). Either or both would be new Ultralight TP loggings here. Finally, 1071 kHz had a weak male-voiced TP in the CFAX splatter (which was un-nullable on the loop, because the bearings were too close). The program was some kind of news or talk, heard around 1431 right before the band slowly started to fade here. I have no idea who it was, and I don't expect too much help from the Victoria DXers :-) Maybe it will be tomorrow's big target? 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' PVC-frame tuned passive loop (in back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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