Hello All, All the reports of TA activity in the east and midwest made me scramble for my ICF-2010 spotting receiver, in hopes of hearing the new season's first TA audio (six of them were heard here last season). Scanning the band eagerly, I noticed that the usual suspects on 675, 693, 756 and 1377 had ghostlike heterodynes at best, but there was a booming carrier on 738 kHz. Turning the ICF-2010 toward the Asiatic TP direction nulled out the heterodyne, convincing me that something was coming in from Europe :-) Setting up the 9' PVC box loop and modified C.Crane SWP Ultralight in the back yard, the monster loop was quickly turned to the NE / SW direction (for Europe), and immediately brought in a nice audio signal on 738 kHz! After recording a few minutes of apparent French, I checked the band again for more "TA's," finding nothing. Thinking over this bizarre situation, I suddenly remembered that the French voices I heard on 738 were the same ones that were heard before in the RFO broadcasts from Tahiti last summer. Then it became clear that this "TA" was actually Tahiti fading in on its sunset peak (at the same time that Europe would fade in on its sunrise peak), using a European language at the same (reciprocal) loop bearing as Europe on the 9' loop! It's nice to hear Tahiti in this DU-dead zone (for only the second time ever), but it wasn't exactly the desired result :-) I hope that this comical situation will prove as humorous to others as it is to me. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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