Hello All, The excellent Chinese conditions noted by Walt and others were prevailing here also, but a couple of other long-term targets were finally at decent levels this morning-- barely strong enough to be received on the 9' loop. 1143-Taiwan fisheries had been reported by almost everyone else in the NW, but had somehow eluded me all season long. At 1415 some Chinese developed on 1143 which sounded promising, but far weaker than the 738 parallel. Nick reported hearing Chinese on 1143 that didn't seem // with 738, and around 1410 I was also puzzled whether I had the same programming or not (1143 was weak). Finally at 1414 the 1143 signal came up, and had the same Chinese song as 738 (a true blowtorch this morning). 819-Pyongyang is any easy catch for almost any NW DXer-- except for those of us next to 820-KGNW. The 819 heterodyne had been heard hundreds of times next to semi-local KGNW, but never loud enough to dig out audio. Finally this morning, with some kind of legendary signal, 819-Pyongyang was booming in right next to KGNW-- and the 9' loop was able to slap a fairly deep null on the pest. I got a nice MP3 of the typical (obsolete) music from Pyongyang-- for a nice moral victory of sorts (kind of like when the Victoria DXers receive JOAB-693 next to 690-CBU? :-) So, Ultralight TP's #106 and 107 are now logged-- thanks to the great conditions. 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' PVC-frame tuned passive loop (in the rainy back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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