[IRCA] TP 23 Mar Victoria version

2018-03-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Essentially a mix of mostly Japanese and Korean plus a few down unders, with an Asian peak 1350-1400UT, as Gary mentioned. The good news is that it is apparently Toli Toli time again, as today was the first evidence of the annual arrival of signals from RRI on 1377kHz. It's sort of an

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2018-03-23 Thread Gary DeBock
Hi Nick, <<< Count your blessings Gary. The "boost to the big guns" here mostly involved them becoming audible. The idea of 1134 peaking to anything beyond a grumble in Victoria is strictly for those few mornings when dozens of Asians are audible, >>> Actually, except for about 5 peak minutes

[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2018

2018-03-23 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period to the previous date by ELT]. Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S inside E-W

Re: [IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2018

2018-03-23 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- ** MEXICO [and non]. 710, March 23 at 1217, preacher in Low German with American accent: this really stands out on the MW band vs all the Vietnamese and Spanish, and of course it`s XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which emits this guy every morning. I see that WRTH 2018

[IRCA] Mostly Mexican MW DX to Enid OK, March 17-23, 2018

2018-03-23 Thread Glenn Hauser via IRCA
--- Begin Message --- These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also VHF/UHF, sometimes utility, ham, which may be found in several archives without much delay, such as http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser And compiled weekly along with extensive news

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2018-03-23 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Count your blessings Gary. The "boost to the big guns" here mostly involved them becoming audible. The idea of 1134 peaking to anything beyond a grumble in Victoria is strictly for those few mornings when dozens of Asians are audible, Is 1377 a tough frequency for you? The one (very)

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

2018-03-23 Thread Gary DeBock
Of course, Nigel's DU's ignored this pedestrian location on their.way to Alberta this morning (so what else is new?). What seemed like miserable Asian propagation around 1330 improved somewhat with a dramatic daybreak boost to the big guns on 594, 693 and 972 around 1345, resulting in overall

[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 March 2018

2018-03-23 Thread Nigel Pimblett
Since I'm heading out of town this afternoon I'll have to be on the ball and get a report on this morning's action out right away. It was once more a DU morning, but this time the low band was weaker, and the upper band (and especially the X-band) was favoured. In fact it was the best