What a difference a day makes. Monitored this morning and had one of the best DU sessions I've ever experience here in Masset. The Japanese power houses were simply not very strong at all this morning, compared to being an almost exclusively Asian morning yesterday. I've read about a giant solar flare coming onto the visible part of the sun, so perhaps this explains things. The A/K indices this morning of 5 and 0 were not very useful. I did notice that the SF was a little higher than usual at 80. Almost exclusively this morning, I used my giant looped ALA 100 aimed towards NZ and Australia. The Wellbrook array, also aimed in the same direction just didn't do it at dawn, unfortunately. I monitored from 11:48 UTC for about an hour and a half. Here's my list, with "6" unless noted:
180, 531, 549 612: Brisbane at 7.5 to 8 at 12:09, and later a 8.5 at 12:27 621, 639 648: 7 level with music 657: 8 level Southern Star 666 675: 6 to 7 with music 684: My star performer this morning with Radio Fiji 1 being very strong at 9 level at 12:18, and seemingly // to 639 (which is the frequency I often hear well in Victoria) 693: 6 to 7 with NHK2 702: Australia plus coch at 7 738: Another star this morning at 9 level RFO Tahiti with French vocal at 12:21 747: NHK2 only at 6.5 level 774: 8.5 level Australia and weak cochannel only. 783 792: Brisbane presumed at 6 to 7 828 837: 7 level with music 891: 6 to 7 level either 5AN Adelaide or 2XW Wellington (I suspect the latter) 963: 7.5 to 8 Southern Star at 12:35 1008 1035: Newstalk ZB Wellington at 7.5 level at 12:38 1053, 1062 1134: 7 level JJ using QDFA or BOG 1143, 1188 1242: JOLF at 9 level using QDFA at 12:44 1287: 8 level JOHR 1296 1314: 6 to 7 level JOUF 1332, 1368, 1377 1386: 7 level NHK2 with QDFA at 12:49 1395: 7 level with +++IBOC hash 1413: 7 level DU with music. No idea who. 1422: 7.5 level JORF 1475: RTM at 7.5 level 12:54 1476 1494: 6 to 7 likely Southern Star at 12:56 1503: 6 to 7 with ? Sportstalk NZ (Wellington or Christchurch) 1512: ABC National 2RN 7 level at 12:59 1548: 4QD at 8 to 9 level at 13:01 1557 1566: 9 level HLAZ 1575: 6 to 7 1584: ?T8AA Koror at 7.5 level at 13:03 1593, 1602, 1611 1629: 7 level with music at 13:06 1656: Voice of the Australian Chinese, Brisbane at 7 level at 13:07 in CC 1701: 6.5 1720: Interesting that 2 x 860 was coming in very well with CBC programming 2368.5 Radio Symban, Sydney was coming in very well this morning. Well that's it from me. Just a couple more mornings, and home.........Walt _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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: [email protected]
