Hello All, The morning TP propagation here had a fairly nice sunrise enhancement, but since the second-tier signals were pretty weak before that boost around 1450, the final results weren't very impressive. An exception was 648-VOR (playing easy listening music during its Chinese program at 1455) with a booming signal-- for its best level of the season (or maybe for the last 5 days, since it seemed to be gone for most of the season). A nice MP3 was made of the music. The UnID Chinese was back on 594 kHz pestering a weakened JOAK around 1458, with neither signal very strong. JOAK had been booming in for most of the morning, however, along with the 747, 774 and 828 NHK powerhouses. Recently, the Chinese co-channels on 594 and 828 kHz seem to prefer the peak sunrise enhancement before showing up. It would be nice to know who they are. Despite the promising carrier on 1503 kHz yesterday, the high band seemed anemic indeed this morning, and setting up another backyard PVC loop (the 4' collapsible frame model) to chase JOUK and other high-band TP's proved fruitless. In summary, this morning seemed very much like the average November propagation, after the fun of the last three days. 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' and 4' PVC-framed tuned passive loops (in the back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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