Hello All, Despite the poor TP results reported by Richard, Bill and Nigel, there were some vibrant Asian signals here this morning, but the propagation certainly didn't favor the second-tier TP's. Almost all of the healthy signals were from the "big guns," which enjoyed a decent sunrise enhancement after 1400. The strange propagation provided a freakish signal boost to 594-JOAK (which once again reached a near-legendary level, like a week ago), plus smaller boosts to 585-JOPG and 747-JOIB. These stations' signals were better than yesterday's levels, but the second-tier TP's like 756-CNR1 and 1035-CNR1 did not benefit from the sunrise enhancement, and never did reach yesterday's levels. Several Chinese like 738-Taiwan and 936-Anhui had a moderate boost, and 639-CNR1 did manage to come out of the noise around 1430, as did 648-VOR and 657-Pyongyang. The overall results were less than impressive, although in relation to the inland DXers' mediocre TP reports, it's probably best to be thankful. It's suitable to term the morning's results as low average, with a few freakish signals like 594-JOAK running against the downward trend. The following were heard on a modified C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick), inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the rainy back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver: 558 HLQH Daegu, S. Korea Fair Korean speech at 1425 // 603 585 JOPG Kushiro, Japan Fair-good Japanese YL conversation at 1406, // 594 (with smaller sunrise enhancement boost) 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Booming Japanese YL talk at 1405; freakishly strong for overall mediocre TP propagation _http://www.mediafire.com/?cw9fs6oglfttwk8_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?cw9fs6oglfttwk8) 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Good Korean speech 1426 // 558 639 CNR1 China Synchros (presumed) Threshold audio at 1430 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Weak w/ JJ out of noise at 1428 657 Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Tirades thankfully weak at 1434 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan Fair Japanese music at 1355, // 594 (see NHK1 programming note below) 738 BEL2 Penhu, Taiwan Fair-good Chinese talk program 1418 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Good Japanese talk around 1402 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Almost buried in KTTH splatter 1415 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Weaker than other NHK2 big guns 1413 936 Anhui, China Poor-fair foreign music around 1419 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Good Korean speech (in slop) at 1433; strongest Korean of morning _http://www.mediafire.com/?8e66a351ln68x67_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?8e66a351ln68x67) 1044 CRI Jiangsu, China Fair Japanese program in and out 1357 1134 KBS3 Hwaseong, S. Korea Fair Korean speech at 1408 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Poor-fair Japanese program 1345 The normally talk-oriented NHK1 stations (594-JOAK, 666-JOBK, 891-JOHK, 1503-JOUK etc.) have a Japanese music program around 1330 UTC on Saturday night (on our Saturday morning). This recording of Japanese music was made on 594-JOAK at 1355 today _http://www.mediafire.com/?zo8abfmlsv8hdr4_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?zo8abfmlsv8hdr4) 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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