Hello All, The TP propagation here this morning seemed a lot closer to Nigel's positive version than to Dennis' results, so maybe the "parallel universes" are finally coming into convergence? In any case, it's safe to say that the doldrums of the past two days are over, although it didn't quite seem to be the best day of the season here, as Bruce experienced. Once again DXing on the 9' loop, there was strong audio from 648-VOR, 657-Pyongyang and 675-Vietnam at times, as well as occasional S9 audio from 594-JOAK, the 1053-Korean Jammer and the 1134 kHz "TP Convention" frequency. Interesting signals were on 828 kHz (a co-channel under JOBB) and 1044 kHz (presumed China). Both 603 and 1134 kHz had nice TP mixes, and a 738 kHz co-channel under a weakened BEL2 sounded more Japanese than Korean (but faded before a parallel check could be made). This TP-chasing session was a refreshing change from the mediocre situations of yesterday and Wednesday, and it certainly seems that Asiatic propagation is getting back on track just in time for an exciting weekend. The stations below were received on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick) inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the back yard): 585 JOPG Kushiro, Japan Fair with Japanese conversation at 1311, // 594 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Great signals all morning; strong Japanese talk program at 1325 _http://www.mediafire.com/?pjyaz8r79bbaalb_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?pjyaz8r79bbaalb) 603 TP-Mix Korean (HLSA) mixing with UnID Chinese at fair level, 1315 639 CNR1 Beijing, China Weak audio in and out from 1320-1330 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Strong music during Chinese program at 1319; best signal of season _http://www.mediafire.com/?45cu30nsuy1l8de_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?45cu30nsuy1l8de) 657 Pyongyang, N. Korea Tirade at serious strength with ragged carrier, 1318 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan Good Japanese talk program at 1327, // 594 675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Fair to good strength with YL Vietnamese news through splatter at 1316 _http://www.mediafire.com/?gdijy5slap9xhfo_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?gdijy5slap9xhfo) 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Fair Chinese pop music program for most of morning 738 UnID A weak Japanese-sounding station was mixing with BEL2 occasionally, not seeming to follow HKLG's usual format. Too weak to check KBS // 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Vibrant NHK2 signals in some KXL splatter around 1333 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Fair Japanese signals no match for KTTH splatter, 1334 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Fair strength but deep fades over UnID co-channel, 1339 828 UnID Music-playing station with apparent Chinese speech, weak at 1339 891 JOHK Sendai, Japan Fair NHK1 signals from this 20 kw overachiever at 1336 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Good signal with Korean conversation around 1343 1045 China (presumed) Fair strength Chinese speech and music around 1312 1053 Korean Jammer Back to super strength _http://www.mediafire.com/?35bpi7cezettopk_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?35bpi7cezettopk) 1134 TP-Mix Japanese (JOQR) music and talk usually dominant over Korean from KBS, with both combining for an S9 level occasionally 1377 China (presumed) Weak threshold audio back, a sign of better propagation 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair to good Japanese religious program around 1315 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Weak-fair with Asiatic language program, 1316 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock both mixing at an S9 level _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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