Unlike Richard and Colin I had no South Pacific DX show up in this DU-dead zone this morning, although like yesterday there were a few ghostly Asians rising out of the noise during a lackluster sunrise enhancement. The session would have been a total bore except for the odd pattern of Asians showing up-- on 594, 603, 657,and 738.
At first band check (1245) only 1566 had a weak carrier, and the Asians stayed comatose until around 1330, when 594-JOAK barely came out of the noise. Around 1345 the carriers on 603, 657 and 738 came into audio, and after double-checking all of these to confirm that they weren't from the DU direction, I detected weak Korean-inflected female speech on 603, apparent bad-mood Korean on 657, and weak music on 738. These all bailed by 1355, leaving 594-JOAK as the last ghostly Asian to bite the dust. The only semi-interesting DX heard here overnight was because of the IRCA post from Walt about 738-Tahiti's good signal around 0515 UTC. After setting up the 15" FSL in the rainy back yard I did record a fairly good signal from the station just after 0600-- but probably far less impressive than Walt's Victoria signal. Unfortunately I needed to record on 737 kHz because of monstrous 740-KCBS splatter. As discussed in the aurora-related DX thread recently, whenever we have aurora-like conditions here in the Northwest we also have mega-pests in California that get enhanced by any aurora-- and there seems to be an unlimited supply of them. 738 Radio Polynesie Mahina, Tahiti French vocal music at fairly good level at 0604; recorded on 737 kHz (because of enhanced San Francisco splatter) https://app.box.com/s/3s5pzy6drmpkubrwj8mbbpkbvwtnujqf 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 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
