Hello All, Asiatic propagation was very good again this morning, with the "big gun" Japanese TP's like 594, 747 and 774 kHz having strong signals like yesterday. The Chinese stations on 639, 756, 927, 936 and 1377 which had been producing threshold audio are now fading in and out with weak Chinese, and the first strong TP mix of the season was recorded on 1134 kHz, with JOQR and KBS both fighting it out with good signal strength. A mystery music station continues to be heard under the 1053-Korean Jammer, and another mystery Japanese station continues to weakly show up on 738 kHz (when Taiwan loses its usual propagation edge). The duration of sunrise enhancement continues to be short in this inland location, even with good propagation-- TP signals usually have collapsed around 1335 here recently. Congratulations to Richard Allen for receiving several TP's on his Tecsun PL-310 Ultralight in Oklahoma-- a remarkable example of the skillful use of propagation. The new DX Season should provide a lot of excitement for those ULR-DXers (and others) willing to "push their luck" in a similar manner! The following were received on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick) inductively coupled to a 7.5' PVC tuned passive loop in the back yard: 558 JOCR Kobe, Japan Fair signal around peak propagation at 1318 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Good strength with Japanese program at 1307 603 HLSA (presumed) Threshold audio around 1320, apparently Korean 639 CNR1 Beijing, China Weak music and Chinese speech in and out at 1322 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Weak Chinese speech at 1317, faded fast 657 Pyongyang N. Korea Moderate buzzing signal and Korean tirades, 1320 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan Typically strong like the other NHK "big guns" this morning; nice Japanese at 1314 _http://www.mediafire.com/?ll5y2w1kc27gc33_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ll5y2w1kc27gc33) 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Fair Chinese pop music and speech from 1305-1335 738 UnID Japan Weaker than yesterday, but threshold Japanese still under BEL2 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Strongest of the Japanese here, but degraded by KXL 756 CNR1 China Weak Chinese domestic program in and out throughout morning 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Vibrant signals at 1310, but not as vibrant as KTTH splatter 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan NHK2 "big gun" all alone with good signals at 1325 927 China (presumed) Threshold audio occasionally became weak Chinese, 1319 936 China (presumed) Another weak station playing hide and seek around 1318 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Fair to good Korean program throughout morning 1053 Korean Jammer Buzzing along at fair strength over UnID music station 1053 UnID Classical-type music over and under the Jammer around 1333 1134 JOQR Tokyo, Japan (and KBS, Hwaseong, S. Korea) The first strong TP mix of the new season at 1332 _http://www.mediafire.com/?f6a6f6j306jnoig_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?f6a6f6j306jnoig) 1377 CNR1 China Another Chinese station producing anemic audio around 1324 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Strong signal during Japanese religious program, 1309 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Deep fades during Asiatic language program 1593 China (presumed) First weak Chinese audio of the season heard here at 1333 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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