Hello All, In a pretty remarkable comeback, what had been a thoroughly mediocre band prior to 1420 suddenly came to life with a strong sunrise enhancement from 1425-1450, boosting several Asian mainland stations up to their best audio of the Fall Season. The listening session started of at 1300 with the TP "big guns" at their usual anemic level, struggling to produce much audio through the noise and domestic splatter. Unusually, there was no mid-session propagation dive or boost, and the same collection of Asian regulars (594, 648, 657, 738, 747, 774, 972, 1134, 1566 and 1575) were still fading in and out with lackluster signals right up until 1420. It appeared that another mediocre late-season session was about to wrap up. Suddenly, 972-HLCA faded in strongly at 1430, along with a pesky Chinese co-channel. 738-BEL2 also rose up to be heard, with audio near its best of the season. 639-CNR1 and 675-Vietnam soon followed, with the latter having its strongest signal since September. Finally around 1350, the Chinese YL speech from 936-Anhui provided that station's best signal of the season. The Japanese NHK stations had a moderate signal boost during this period, but it was nothing like the weird propagation surge from China. Unfortunately it was necessary to wrap things up around 1455 when the Chinese were still strong, so there was no chance to check the other notable Mainland frequencies like 756, 927, 945, 981, 1035, 1377 and 1593. Maybe one of the SDR DXers also noticed the late-session China surge from 1430-1445, when reviewing recordings from that period this morning? Even though nothing new or rare was heard here, it was the best propagation from China for quite a while. The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick) and stock Tecsun PL-606 DSP model, inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver: 558 HLQH Daegu, S. Korea Fair-good with music at 1423, // 603 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Very good with Japanese interview 1444 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Good with Korean music at 1424 639 CNR1 China Synchros Fair with male-female Chinese speech at 1445 during sunrise enhancement; inaudible previously 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Good strength Russian music during Japanese external program at 1419 _http://www.mediafire.com/?agcrhiec28xv94k_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?agcrhiec28xv94k) 657 Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Fair mumbling Korean tirades at 1418 675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Fair Vietnamese YL speech during sunrise enhancement; best signal since Sept. _http://www.mediafire.com/?95600b5t6yqsdu5_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?95600b5t6yqsdu5) 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Another Chinese station boosted up by late session surge around 1446 _http://www.mediafire.com/?ygc4ur2afvrd9k0_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?ygc4ur2afvrd9k0) 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Good Japanese talk around 1448 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Losing battle with KTTH splatter at 1415 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Fair-good Japanese speech around 1350 936 Anhui, China YL speech boosted by late surge at 1450; best audio of season (recorded on new PL-606) _http://www.mediafire.com/?1inc1x8orhma9qn_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?1inc1x8orhma9qn) 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Good Korean speech with CC co-channel at 1431 _http://www.mediafire.com/?j4o84or486nyxpb_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?j4o84or486nyxpb) 1134 KBS3 Hwaseong, S. Korea Good with Korean speech at 1439 during late-session surge 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair-good Japanese religious pgm 1341 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Fair Asiatic language speech 1340 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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