Thanks to Nigel, Colin and Walt for their earlier reports. The situation here was similar to what Nigel and Walt reported, as Asian audio was primarily limited to the usual Japanese and Korean big guns. A few Chinese stations (on 1044, 1206, 1323 and 1593) made halfhearted appearances, but they were far off of yesterday's unusual variety and strength. The usual big gun TP's on 594, 693, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1053 and 1566 were at fair to good levels at my 1255 start time, but the only Chinese stations in audio were 1323-CRI's Russian service (fair) and 1044-CRI's Japanese service (poor). Increasing daylight around 1320 didn't change propagation much, although the intermittent Chinese on 1044 and 1323 were joined by very anemic signals on 1206 and 1593, and both 603-HLSA and a presumed 738-BEL2 came out of the noise weakly. Around 1330 nothing except the NHK2 big guns on 693, 747 and 774 sounded really healthy except for intermittent potent signals from 972-HLCA and the 1053-Jammer. The situation didn't change much until around 1350, when 603-HLSA made a modest rally to reach fair levels with Korean pop music // to a very weak 558. Even the NHK big guns didn't seem very impressed with the situation by 1400, by which time all of the TP signals had started their terminal plunge. Overall the session was pretty mediocre, but it's easy to get spoiled after enjoying propagation like yesterday's Chinese-dominated conditions. 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Korean pop music at a fair level hosted by KBS2's deep-voiced male at 1353; no trace of the usual Chinese co-channel https://app.box.com/s/2ky5nhdk7nl9ewhiki64u7mai9dtp28q 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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