Hello All, About a month ago Walt sent me an MP3 of a Chinese station mixing with KPUG-1170 at a pretty good level, and recently it seemed that everyone except me had heard the KBS mega-station mixing with the Bellingham, WA (sports talk) domestic station. Running out of easy Ultralight TP's to chase after 107 were in the log, I decided to give TP-chasing on 1170 a try during good conditions this morning. KPUG is pretty far from here, so it was easy to null on the 9' loop. Although the null bearing wasn't ideal for Korea, it didn't matter during great TP propagation (like this morning). Sure enough at 1411, there was a Chinese music station mixing with KPUG's much-reduced signal, then the KBS 500 kw station HLSR joined in a minute later (with Korean talk, then non-Korean foreign-type music). The Chinese music station was UnID, but it may possibly have been the CNR1 reported by Bruce in his excellent Grayland report (in the current DXM). The KBS station rose up to 9+ local-like strength at 1418 playing some foreign music, completely taking over the frequency from both KPUG and the UnID Chinese, and was easily audible on the C.Crane SWP Slider with no help from the loop. The Chinese then came up in strength at 1422, before both TP's began to fade at 1430. It was a very fun morning, and the KBS station (Ultralight TP #108) was the first TP I've heard on a domestic frequency since logging JOBB-830 (in January of 1973) on a Sony TR-6400 :-) 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' (side) PVC-frame tuned passive loop _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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