Hello All,
As Colin and Richard have already reported, Asian signals took quite a nosedive
this morning, with decent audio limited to a few big gun TP's here. The band
started out at 1300 in a mediocre state, and generally stayed there throughout
a lackluster sunrise enhancement until folding at 1450. 594-JOUB, 747-JOIB,
774-JOUB and 828-JOBB managed fair to good signals in and out during the
1330-1430 period, along with the Korean big guns on 972 and 1566. The
1053-Jammer continues to be pestered by an UnID TP co-channel, although
propagation wasn't favorable for any kind of detailed investigation this
morning (it seems to be music-oriented). The only second-tier TP's showing up
(all at a halfhearted level) were 603-China and 603-HLSA in a mix at 1408, 657-
Pyongyang with ancient orchestral music at 1437, 738-BEL2 with Chinese speech
at 1335, and CRI-1017 with Korean speech and Chinese music at 1433.
The only kind of excitement in the lackluster session came at 1410, when 738
kHz had a huge carrier that was definitely strange for the mediocre morning.
Wondering how in the world 738-BEL2 could be defying the pathetic propagation
to come up with such a potent carrier, I tuned all around the frequency, and
couldn't come up with even a trace of Chinese. Finally I realized what was
going on, and re-directed the 12" FSL to face 738-Tahiti, which was managing
one of its best signals of the season (fair) at this lackluster location with
French female speech in KCBS splatter. Unfortunately Tahiti's bearing at this
location isn't too much different from that of 740-KCBS, so the PL-380's modest
DSP filtering got a severe test. Any audio at all from 738-Tahiti has been very
rare here this season, although last year in September it was almost a daily
visitor. So even on such a mediocre morning, DXing surprises can come out of
the blue.
738 Radio Polynesie Mahina, Tahiti Fair French
female speech (in KCBS splatter) at 1410
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/925m4b22swjod4g/738-R.Polynesie-1410z103013PL380.MP3
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight +
12" Medium Wave FSL antenna
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