Todays brief session started at around 1325 UTC --- bit of a sleep in but had to be out the door off to the University at 1420 -- so some hustle required.
Seemed pretty average for the 1st 5 or 10 minutes with a mix of 1st and 2nd tier Japan with hints of DU banging at the door. 1325U - 594 - The Japanese powerhouse holding forth with hints of audio on 531, 558, 567, 576, 585, 603 and 612 1330U - 1053 - The S. Korea jamming cawing away with hints of JJ over and under at times. 1337U - 954 - JOKR - Japan rising to easy listening levels - https://youtu.be/_PfvE6HKOeU - 1340U - 576 - UNid - Piano solo (which I would quickly hear on other channels... 603 KHz and 909 kHz! ) https://youtu.be/bNO2bW6WJic 1342U -- band wide anomaly -- See detail below. 1347U - 603 - UNid - Piano solo much like 576 but not an obvious parallel - unlike the usually "poppy" Korean 1348U - 702 - 2BL (t) - Assume the big EE OM talking away in a deep voice. Lots of signal all morning but gallons of domestic splash from 690 1349U - 891 - JOHK Miyagi - assuming the JJ OM - in this battle royal channel. Even in Kona, Hawaii, this is one of the frequencies that has the loudest signals and battle royals at sunrise. 1350U - 909 - JOCB Aichi (t) - JJ OM with more tinkling Piano solo music - seeing a pattern developing 1352U - 954 - JOKR - Tokyo - rising to even better levels - was odd: the usual powerhouses on 747, 774, 828 were "ok" absolutely nothing special 1354U - 612 - 4QR - Brisbane - Armchair copy as I get instructions from YL to "shut 'er down"... https://youtu.be/s7DitHnKkso NOTE: At 1342 I noticed something really odd - the band died for what appeared to be 15 to 25s. Like everything took a total swan dive and this appeared to be reflected on the Hall-Patch fish barrel... unless I imagined this - Nick can confirm later - was as if the entire band.. at least the neighborhood I was in took a "bump" in propagation that was very, very brief. Like everything faded at once... and then within 30s returned to some normal levels. Cannot say I have even seen anything like this. RECEIVERS: Drake R8 and AOR-7030+ Antennas: (W)/NW Flag (286 degrees) [more West than N/W] Wellbrook ALA100 oriented N/S -- *Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada* _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com