[IRCA] Good Morning Late: Orcas Isl. Oct 7

Things have gotten late enough that I've quit setting the alarm so I did not get to the dials until 1403 this AM. (LSR=1420 UTC). Still, it was a very good morning, North Korea 657 seems to have been working on their transmitter: a nice clean signal this AM. 666 was Chinese this AM at 1410, all

[IRCA] TPs on Orcas, Oct 10

I'd taken a couple of mornings off, but was at the dials from 1330 to 1430 this morning... generally, I shoulda taken another morning off. Well below average to poor would be my assessment. Although I did eventually get a modest number of audios, even on the upper band at dawn, things were far

[IRCA] Grayland Day ONE

I'm looking forward to downloading e-mail today (at the Local Tavern, since the Library is closed on Mondays). In general, I hope the NW DX Reports for this morning are "Pedestrian," because that is darn sure what Guy and I experienced here. Guy didn't quite get his Lankford Array set up at th

[IRCA] Day TWO at Grayland

After I uploaded yesterday, I got to thinking how ungrateful I was for the less than wonderful conditions down here. After all it is quite a bit of expense and two long travel days to come to Grayland from Orcas and return... and to find reception no better than at home is a downer. STILL, the

[IRCA] Day THREE at Grayland

Conditions seem to be "healing" somewhat along with the arrival of the fall rainy season. In general, signals seemed somewhat better and the more northerly routes (the Russians) were at least present, if not at full strength. I managed a long log for a reception report (yet again) for Voice of

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-16... Late Boom

Fabulous report, Gary... I'm sorry to say that I've yet to reattach loop heads, etc. for my antennas, so I slept in on a very good Asian morning. I'd love to have both 891 and 792 MP3s... for obvious reaspons, especially as 792 is concerned :>) Be sure and turn in your log to Ol' Rob, Sergea

[IRCA] Belated Day FOUR Report from Grayland: Oct 14

As was reported elsewhere, Thursday morning showed significant improvement from our first three days down in Grayland. With Guy's new QDFA antenna working 100% finally, I'd expect some very nice loggings when he finishes reviewing all of his Perseus recordings. Since I still do things the old f

Re: [IRCA] Victoria TP's for 10/17/09 First Flush

Well, I'm somewhat glad to hear of the pedestrian conditions. I went out yesterday in the rain to re-install my Wellbrook loop heads here after the trip to Grayland and then set the alarm this morning for well before dawn. Got up, fired up the receiver and ZAP! the lights went out on three of

[IRCA] Power Outage on Orcas Island

Believe me, Nick, I really thought about the current draw on that receiver when I punched on the 313e and my shack lights went out less than 30 seconds later. I was quite relieved when I looked out the windows and found the entire town also jet black. Had I known in advance, I'd have gotten a 1

[IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18

Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500 and maybe hear them sign

[IRCA] NHK2 Sign-Off Schedule

At 05:48 PM 10/18/2009 -0700, you wrote: Nick had reported hearing NHK2 s/off at 1500 in late September. I subsequently found the NHK2 schedule on their website, and confirmed that they are now signing off every night at 1500. That's good news as the season progresses, since it will make 693

Re: [IRCA] NHK2 s/off

Yup, Like I observed yesterday, 747//774//828 all just kept trucking at 1500. I quit at 1512, with 747 still going well, but the other two were there with only poor audio. John B. At 04:03 PM 10/19/2009 +, you wrote: > NHK2's s/off seems to have moved back to 1600 at least. Pr

[IRCA] TPs Oct 18 from Orcas Island

Things continued to be quite good this morning, with the Chinese seeming somewhat better than usual. 540 was the strongest CNR1 that I've heard there at 1430 dawn 765 seemed to be Chinese, but with an echo that I've not heard before... and none listed in my version of PAL 1062 just after 140

[IRCA] TPs for Oct 20 from Orcas

I'm in the midst of making some minor modifications to the Wellbrook Array here and that may have affected my morning results. In any case, my results were "Uninspiring" this morning they weren't bad, weren't good, just sorta low normal. The upper band seemed down, especially, though there

Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 10-20... More Fun

Fellas, CNR1 was running an hour long music program this morning starting at about 1403... not classical opera, at least when I was listening. It was more an Asian pops program. I think that it was an hour long. John Bryant At 07:14 PM 10/20/2009 +, you wrote: At 18:43 10/20/2009,

[IRCA] EXCELLENT Morning: Oct 21 on Orcas Isl.

I got my antenna mods completed yesterday before the rains returned and I really don't know whether my excellent results here reflect excellent band conditions or some improvements in the Wellbrook Array or both. I suspect the latter. For me, the band was all about China. The JJ regulars were

[IRCA] Bottom Heavy TPs from Orcas Island

Bill Brock mentioned that it was a strange morning, with only the low stuff working, but that pretty good. Same here. The bottom half of the band was almost 100% audio sometime during dawn enhancement; the top half was about as bad as I've seen it in the last two months. Further, only the lowes

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island

We were all listening to the same band this morning! Pretty useless above 972. However, the bottom 25% of the band had some interesting things: 558: Like Gary, HLQH, KBS 2 in Daegu was a new station for me. I could hear Kobe beneath the KK, but it was way beneath. 585: There was a second As

Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 21 Oct 2009

I'd been meaning to comment on Nigel's GREAT morning on Oct. 21... That was a real peak here, too... but MAN I've have rather heard Nigel's stations! Urumqi, as the capitol of Xinjiang province is a nasty industrial city from what I hear, but it is surrounded by some of the most exotic cultur

[IRCA] 1107 from Asia

Gary DeBock and I have both been watching this frequency lately, in fact I've been watching it all season. Using my detailed spectrum display on the 313e (4 kHz = about 4" in a oscilloscope-type display) I can see that usually there is an on-frequency carrier there that is ragged and muddy... a

[IRCA] TPS Recovering on Orcas Island

I'm with the group who heard TPs beginning to come back. As Bruce said, maybe not quite up to the Seasonal Average for this wonderful October, but still pretty fine stuff. Both the lower and upper band were better than yesterday and things seemed kind of disturbed... a few things stronger than

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas: Disturbed+Uninspired

I definitely heard the same band as Walt this morning though I quit a little earlier. We had a few small differences: 549: Where Walt had NHK1 late in the morning, I enjoyed Mayak at the same time... Wow! Mayak was by itself and actually stronger than 576, which was also back doing quite well

[IRCA] TPs Not So Bad: Orcas Island

I guess that my glass was half full, were Walt's was half empty! The band was very much like the last several days pretty useless above1000, but below there, I had wall-to-wall audio at some point during dawn. Although most channels were occupied by the usual suspects, there were several q

Re: [IRCA] TPs heard in Calgary AB + Alaska TWB on 529 this AM

Deane, I have Level Island here every morning unless the sub-Arctic is totally wiped out. They get out well! John Bryant near Vancouver, BC At 10:39 AM 10/26/2009 -0600, you wrote: Listened this morning on the SR-II barefoot from 1330 to 1400, JOAK-594 and JOIB-747 both had good audio at

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island

Sorry that I didn't report yesterday: it was just so depressing! I worked on my attitude overnight and, sure enough, things were improved quite a bit this morning! The lower band was at least at some point between 1400 and 1500... about 80% full of audio... up markedly from yesterday, es

[IRCA] Down - A Lot: TPs from Orcas

My spectrum chart does not look as bad as it should, though it is pretty bad. Most of the signals that were there put in quite brief peaks of audio and then disappeared in the murk. Even at that, I only had about half the audios of yesterday on the lower band. The upper band was about the same

[IRCA] Day ONE at Grayland

Kevin Schanilec and I were able to get both Wellbrook arrays up on Friday afternoon: a phased array of 2 triangular K9AYs and another massive new array of two 17' x 60' Super Loops. Both arrays were pointed NW and were separated and staggered by about 150 feet. It was quite a job including a t

[IRCA] Day TWO at Grayland

Having had such a productive Japanese opening very early yesterday, on our first morning here, Kevin and I got up at 1115UTC, now the equivalent of 3:15AM LST, a full hour ahead of yesterday's start. Like Day ONE, this morning we found the band already rather full of fairly strong signals from

[IRCA] Wellbrook Arrays at Grayland (was re: Day ONE @ Grayland)

At 05:17 PM 10/31/2009 -0500,Neil Kazaross wrote: (SEE MY RESPONSE BELOW - Bryant) : This is good news about the arrays. Once again I will stress that I think end fire arrays of two cardioid antennas will be a major step forward for those with the room to use them (home users need a good sized

[IRCA] 17 x 30 Super Loops + Day THREE

I got up at 3:00 on Monday morning, expecting to antenna test for about an hour and then DX until dawn as per usual. I did that first hour of antenna testing with very interesting results, but at that point, I pulled the plug. Conditions were down considerably from Sunday and down even more fro

[IRCA] Good TPs: Orcas Island

I was at the dial from 1450 until I quit for breakfast at 1525, with things still going fairly well. LSR=1505 or so. It was a very good late season opening with 50 or 60 in some form of audio, from bottom of the band to the top. Most were the usuial suspects at greater or lesser strength than

[IRCA] 1575 Farda first Audio at 0047

My first try for Farda bore fruit... I noted the first carrier at 0017, coming and going, then steady by 0043 and very low audio (clearly WELL modulated) soon after. Could barely distinguish the speaking, but the music wasn't bad and WAS // internet stream. A bit over 7300 miles... the same d

[IRCA] Good Farda at 0200

Also hearing the weakest audio on 1503. Saudi? John B. ___ 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 n

Re: [IRCA] Good Farda at 0200

try as R.Sawa from Kuwait has been my best TA signal here tonight, better than Farda. 73, Nigel Pimblett Dunmore, Alberta John H. Bryant wrote: Also hearing the weakest audio on 1503. Saudi? John B. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http

[IRCA] TAs Orcas

Quite a few hets all over the band now most low level. Very limited audio from 1089 (Britain?) 1278 (France) and 918 () Will keep watching. John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops

Re: [IRCA] test: Am I getting through?

We'uns be hearing you! John B. At 03:50 AM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote: Not sure whether this email address is connecting with IRCA. Please confirm! ..Walt (bobbing around in the S. Pacific) ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://

[IRCA] TAs Still Going, but I'm not!

Just finished another band scan and things were down, until I got to 963 and there was decent audio. It was almost TOH 0500, so I stuck around and, sure enough, it was Finland Radio China International ending one Baltic language and starting another. And I got a recording of most of the ID

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas: Nov 8

I'm still living in the glow of Farda and Pori and plotting an assault on Iran tonight... I had a second maybe Iran on 1026... But to the present: It was a good but not great late season morning. Most of the lower band had audio at one time or another. The upper band was less populated, but

Re: [IRCA] UNID TP on 945 heard in New Jersey

Try // 5030 which is a boomer CNR1 here on the Left Coast. John B. At 07:33 PM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote: At 19:16 11/8/2009, you wrote: >Bill: > >By far the most likely from Grayland is the CNR1 outlet in Jilin. Any CNR1 parallels available (SW or MW?) Also by far the most likely inl

Re: [IRCA] Faroe Islands-531

I had a strong het on 531 about the time of my Pori, Finland logging, so I was saying a strong DXers prayer for Faroes, already logged by near-by Nick Hall-Patch. Prayer went unanswered yesterday, but I have hope for tonight! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultra

[IRCA] Definite JJ on 774 at 0600 UTC

I couldn't believe it especially since I was also following carriers on 576 and 666 plus low audio on 747. Geez, I'm going to BED! John B. ___ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions e

[IRCA] Orcas Island TPs: Nov 9

There I was at 10PM local time, concentrating on 774 hoping for Spain, probably... heck, it was 3:00PM in Tokyo... As I concentrated on the murmur, it began to rise and I was "listening in my best Mexican Spanish," while not forgetting a big Hungarian and a Morrocan station co-channel, and the

Re: [IRCA] TA...yawn?

0200 from Orcas... some hets plus audio on 1539 (VOA???) and 1575 Farda both below language recognition. JOhn B. At 12:44 AM 11/10/2009 +, you wrote: Well, it's sunset, and there are lots of TA carriers, and audio traces on 945kHz briefly. Everything else is also very erratic. Ni

[IRCA] Beverage - Wellbrook Array Comparisons

At 18:22 11/8/2009, Chuck Hutton wrote: Nick Hall-Patch had his ALA-100 array at Grayland with myself and Bruce Portzer Oct. 3 and 4. During that period, we compared it with a 1400' Beverage at 320 degrees that was terminated via 3 six foot ground rods. A different antenna than a 600' Beverage

Re: [IRCA] Beverage - Wellbrook Array Comparisons

ately, High Tide and property ownership hits the Grayland at about the 600 to 700 foot mark, so.. I don't know what else to say, John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops At 04:02 AM 11/10/2009 -0800, you wr

Re: [IRCA] TPs again

Bill, I'm really glad that you have retaken the DXer banner after all of these years far too large/long a hiatus, IMHO. John B. At 08:08 AM 11/10/2009 -0500, you wrote: This morning [10/10] I had 'traces' of various strengths on the Perseus waterfall graph in 'zoom' setting on; 594,

[IRCA] TPs for 10 Nov: Orcas Island

It was one of those mornings where it is not at all difficult to remember that it is a PRIVILEGE to hear any DX at all from over the waves. This morning was one of the very best of the late season mornings. The dial was basically full below 1070 and many of the signals were VERY robust. Above

Re: [IRCA] west coast TA

Farda doing very well here w/fades at 0042 LSR John B. At 12:24 AM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote: Looking mildly promisingweak audio on 1215, enough to match to Absolute's website. A few other carriers including snippets of 1539, 1575, 1503, 1134, 1377 Nick **

[IRCA] TAs so far on Orcas

Got Radio Farda on 1575 big time as mentioned. I also had Iran at 0058 to 0103... some Koranic chanting just before TOH and more modern Persian (?) music at 0102. I did not know of // on internet then... but I'm counting this baby. Had Egypt on 819 with decent copy at around 0112 to 0115 109

[IRCA] Who the Heck is on 234 LW

Not too much beside Droitwich was doing at 0500 on MW, so I dropped down to longwave on a lark and caught something on 234 kHz. Initially, it was at a listenable level, but by 0525, it had slid to murmur level I am not at all good on European languages. It sounded sorta like Russian/Germa

[IRCA] TPs: Orcas Island Nov. 11th

This is another one of those days where its a privilege to TP DX and it was even better than yesterday. I happened to get up two hours before dawn today (1300) and DXed for an hour at thatr time it was like September. GREAT JJ signals in some cases and a number of JJ stations unheard in mo

Re: [IRCA] TPs: Orcas Island Nov. 11th

With Nigel and Nick both chiming in, it sounds to me like my early bird JJ on 720 was Voice of Russia heard here even on an Ultralight. Well, poo! JOIL is such a nice set of call letters, too! John B. At 05:26 PM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote: At 17:00 11/11/2009, you wrote: >720, briefl

[IRCA] TAs Orcas Island

Had Farda well and some audio on 1539. Het only on 1503 all around 0025 1278 France Bleu at 254 918 Almost audio Slovenia? 702 Ment on Iran but could be any lang. at 0306, gone by 0315 VOIRI with half a meg at sunrise at the transmitter on south shore of Caspian??? 963 probable Pori in

[IRCA] TA + TP at 0500

Nigelk, Its interesting that we were both listening to 702 at almost the same time. I came in at 0303 and it was news, primarily by woman, mentioning Iran, but any newscast in the world might fit that description. I'll listen to the recording tomorrow morning. Right now, I'm listening to a

[IRCA] TPs on Orcas Isl: Nov 12

Pretty poor.. The biggest guns in with a small boost on the upper band after LSR. About the only thing of interest was an unknown Chinese, not JJ, on 1332. Well, listening to Arman, suburban Magadan on 234 last night and finding the transmitter site on Google Earth was fun. Good program o

[IRCA] TA Orcas

Low audio on Farda 1575 at 0105. Nothing, I mean NOTHING else. John B. ___ 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 contr

[IRCA] 963 Pori is In Audio: Orcas Island

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[IRCA] Another Good TP Morning: Orcas Island

It was another quite good TP morning, with 85 to 90% of the lower band in audio at some point and close to half of the upper band. For a change, there was a REAL dawn boost from 1440 until LSR at 1530. In truth, it was pretty poor from 1420 tune-in until the boost started, then things were rea

[IRCA] Farda Big Sig on Orcas @0042

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Re: [IRCA] TP DC DX - Nov. 14, 2009

Bill, Could 738 have been Tahiti??? Nice logging/musing! John Bryant At 07:18 AM 11/14/2009 -0500, you wrote: I don't keep a blog or diary, but if I did, this would be my 'DX' entry for today: Nov. 14, 2009 TPs were not as good this morning as they'd been for the past few days. LatAms w

[IRCA] Fair AM TPs from Orcas Island

It was a fair morning with TPs... not quite a good as yesterday, but a decent late season morning. The only REALLY listenable audio was the big gun JJs, some of whom had a co-channel. Plenty of other audio around, it was just somewhat lower and the usual suspects. Soon, this will be "the good

[IRCA] No TAs for Me

Out for da evening... social life interfering with radio. Must rethink priorities. John B. ___ 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 o

[IRCA] OK, so what's on 594: TPs Orcas Island.

In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About half the "normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the audio was poor. On the other hand, there were some real interesting things. 639 CNR1 was walking tall most of my 1440-1525 morning 828: a bit after 1500, it was

[IRCA] TPs Orcas Island: Nov 16

It was a fair to poor late season morning here, with the only thing seriously in audio above 1100 kHz. being 1575 (more later). Below that, about half the channels having at least some audio, a few times at decent level. The JJs Guns were all there, most at poor levels, strong audio at least b

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Isla: 17 Nov

This is the first year since we have been spending "6 months" out here that we have not left for Oklahoma on Monday, almost two weeks before Thanksgiving (yesterday). This year, we are leaving on Tuesday, December 2, so I've two more weeks to appreciate the late season conditions. Speaking of

Re: [IRCA] DXing from the South Pacific 16 Nov2009

Absolutely wonderful to read that log, Walter!!! I've heard a number of outlets of all of those networks. It was really a thrilling read. I'll keep this one for sure. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! I've sure been looking for FF on 666 for New Caledonia for the past several years. I've h

[IRCA] Dull AM of TPs on Orcas

Less than a third the normal low banders and very few above in audio. (1251, 1377, 1575) The only real interest was 720, where there were CC, JJ and KK stations, and maybe more. I swear that somebody left the air (not willingly???) at 1507 and I think it was an UNID language, but it was pret

[IRCA] Excellent TP Morning on Orcas Island

Got up early this morning (1300 with LSR at about 1530) and decided to check in with our late season phenomenon of having good Japanese reception in the 1200 and 1300 range. Well, it turned out to be Japanese (which died down some by 1500) and Chinese (which came up even more late) and it was p

[IRCA] Modest TPs Here, Too: Orcas Island

I had about 50% of the TPs of yesterday AM and none were particularly strong or of special interest. Still, I've only a little more than a week of ANY TPs left, so John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops _

[IRCA] Morning TPs: Orcas Island

If this had been August, it would have been a very good JJ morning, at least the part that I enjoyed from 1500-1530, LSR=1527. The bottom half of the band was well over half full and all of the usual suspects, JJ variety, were doing quite well, at least part of the time many were in strong

[IRCA] TPs Orcas Island: Nov 23

It was a fairly poor morning, with levels of audio quitew low in most cases and the few that were coming in well were only on short-lived peaks, for the most part. I DXed from 1500 until 1540 with LSR at 1530 or so. In ampongst the mediocrity, though, were a few jewels. The more interestin

[IRCA] TPs Oceas Island

Bill and Nigel may well have gotten nothing in audio. I had next to nothing, especially if you eliminate the murmur level stations Less than half a dozen of the historically strongest made it into fair level audio this AM. I hoipe everyone else slept in! John B. Four more Mornings __

[IRCA] Orcas Is. TPs on Nov 25th

I was up quite early this AM and started DXing 2 hours before LSR (LSR = about 1530). Bill, you and Nigel might give the 1200-1330 time frame a try. My TPs were best, if that is the word, when I started at 1330. The lower half of the band out 2/3 coverage and most of the levels were above lang

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas

If you discount the murmurs and JUST above murmurs, I had the JJ big guns, 711 and 972 Korea and VOA-1575. I had maybe 30 murmurs, mostly low band. Turkeys and football, that's the ticket! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superlo

[IRCA] TPs from Orcas Island: Nov. 27

Well, if this isn't the beginning of the dreaded Mid-Winter Anomaly, it is certainly a great imitation of it! Conditions were down, even from yesterday's poor showing. The only non-murmur above 972 was VOA 1575 and it wasn't all that wonderful. Below 972, there were a few of the biggest JJ g

[IRCA] Orcas OIsland TPs for Saturday

I suppose that I heard about what Nick did this ,morning, minus the DUs, but my experience was probably more negative. I heard the 603 Korean especially well this morning and also noted either two or most probably three stations on 675. One was Vietnam, surely, but the others??? Otherwise, th

[IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

I had my worst TP morning of this trip mainly because I packed my radios yesterday. Today is final packing and then tomorrow we head down I-5 to Bakersfield/Barstow and hang a left. We are going to try to break the trip up some this year, with a day here and half a day there, so it will lik

Re: [IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

Thanks, Walt... Mutual admiration society... that is what we've got! I guess that you will fly over our heads as you wing your way north. We'll be on I-5 for Tuesday, Wednesday and most of Thursday, overnighting in Salem, Oregon, Sacremento and preobably Needles, CA or jusrt across the line

Re: [IRCA] Non-TPs from Orcas Island

Thanks Patrick, I'll be at the Seaside Convention for sure. The last one there was just fabulous. See you then, if not before!!! JOhn B. At 02:16 PM 11/30/2009 -0800, you wrote: John, I am sorry Dave and I missed seeing you this year too. Between my busy schedule and the weather, we neve

[IRCA] Finally Back on the South Prairie

Just a warning that we finally made it back to the South Prairie portion known as Stillwater, OK. When we left Orcas Island, Washington a week ago minus about three hours, we thought that we might actually make the shortest run to Oklahoma down thru Salt Lake and Cheyenne. Our first overnight

[IRCA] TPs Wednesday Oct 3: Mediocre but Interesting

I made a first run up the dial about an hour before dawn enhancement and it was the worst that I've experienced from here this fall. There was audio from the big Japanese: 594, 747, 774, 828 and quite a few hets below 1000 kHz and virtually nothing above. The one thing of interest on the first

[IRCA] TPs on Oct 4th: Fairly Southerly

Conditions seemed fairly southerly today, without being a real DU morning. I did hear a few DUs 612, 702 and at times, 3LO was dominating the normal JJ on 774. The upper band continued to be rather sparse, with even the Japanese being very attenuated. There did seem to be quite an opening

[IRCA] TPs Oct 5: Northern Routes are BACK!

This morning was by far the best "Chinese morning" since we returned from the QCI DXpedirion. The Koreans were back in greater number, as well and the JJs were doing fine. The lower band seemed to still be better than the upper, but it was a fine morning all around. The more noteworthy things:

[IRCA] Chinese Translator Needed

Someone kindly volunteered to translate any UNID Chinese that we heard at QCI and I managed to lose the message in the recent flurry. I'd sure appreciate some help with a single UNID, if you could recontact me either here or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! John Bryan _

[IRCA] TPs for Oct 6: Excellent, but $%#! Conputers!

I love my WinRadio 313e and attribute a lot of my more recent "new" stations during dawn enhancement to the graphic display and all-round agility of that receiver and its GUI. HOWEVER, it is a computer-driven device and vulnerable to all of the glitches to which all such are sometimes prone. T

[IRCA] TPs on 1053 this AM

Patrick, Since I was so short of time this morning, I didn't stop for long on 1053. I did note down that there were two signals plus the jammer on there. At QCI, we heard a Chinese, possibly running CNR1 news, at least, on there with the usual Japanese. As far as I know, this is a complete

[IRCA] TPs Oct 7

My early run up the dial was very encouraging at least the first half of it. Many of the usual low band JJs were in at better than normal levels and 675 Vietnam was booming in again (they just must have invested in new tx + antennas about a year ago.) I even had the low power STV repeater,

[IRCA] TPs Oct 9: Very Interesting

It was another very good morning to East Asia, with loads of JJs and KKs and quite a decent number of Chinese. Conditions seemed a bit disturbed as some of the normal stuff was noticeably weaker, some stronger than usual. There was no real pattern to this, just a bit more disturbed than usual.

[IRCA] TPs Oct 10: A Good and Mysterious Morning

Folks, Conditions were very good and I heard a number of things that have me puzzled. Unfortunately, each of the mysteries was only there for a little while and I'll have to do more checking. Some examples: 783: Two signals and the dominant sounded Vietnamese. No ID and its been almost 40 yea

[IRCA] TPs for 11 October

The general conditions seemed down somewhat from the last several days, though most of the usuals were there and at decent levels. There were a few items of interest: 666 Had a Chinese station running CNR1 news at top of the hour, mixing with the usual Japanese. This is a Chinese semi-graveyar

[IRCA] TPs+ on October 12

It was a mediocre TP morning here, with the high band being especially weak. Still, most of the JJ, KK and CC regulars were there just at somewhat lower levels. The items of interest: 639 early 90 minutes before LSR was almost certainly Fiji with Island Talk. The Victoria troops have b

[IRCA] TPs, OCT 13: Its an Ill Wind.....

Wow, just awful conditions my 60 minutes per dawn sweep (1310 UT) was the worst that I've had this year, even counting the few times that I checked in late August. The aurora has just got to be kicking up I had no decent audio at all and only a couple that were at threshold. WOW! Howe

[IRCA] TPs Oct 15: Fabulous Morning!

Like about everyone else, it was a fabulous Chinese morning for me, too not quite as good as Patrick, now that he has figgered out how to hear the Far East, but still pretty fabulous. My early run, an hour before dawn was pretty Chinese, but not too great. However, once dawn enhancement kic

[IRCA] TPs October 16: Another Good One:

It was another excellent Chinese morning. I'm beginning to think that we are past the peak of the Japanese season here on the Left Coast and getting to the month that China seems to dominate. I've noticed the past couple of years that the Japanese seem to come in best in September and the Chin

[IRCA] TPs onna Crystal Set

Walt and Colin sez: Colin, John Bryant has done that with a slick crystal set he purchased on eBay. I believe he accomplished this at Grayland, though.Walt. Actually, what I did was TPs on a 1-tube regen set from here on Orcas Which is quite easy with a good antenna To get the

[IRCA] TPs October 17

Another good, mostly Chinese morning. Its hard to believe, but I've heard three new (to me) CNR1 stations after all of these years... this week has brought me 540, 837 and, today, 1539. Chuck heard them at QCI, but they are totally new for me. They were only in for about 15 minutes, but quite

[IRCA] TPs Oct 18: Another Good CC Morning

This morning, I was up almost three hours before dawn and the CCs were already rolling in. Over all, they were not up to the levels/quality of the past few mornings. Things above 1000 seemed somewhat down, especially. That being said, it was still pretty wonderful. The UNID CC on 837 was in

[IRCA] Who Stole The DX???

Man, What a difference a day makes!!! Yesterday was not quite as good as two-three days ago, but still magnificent. Today just about equals my worst day in early August! Wow! I had intelligible audio on 657, 666, 774, 828, 891 and 1566. The first and last are Korea, the others are JJs. Only

[IRCA] TPs 20 October: Very Hopeful

Thankfully, recovery is already well under way. Things were almost "normal" for me below 1100 kHz. Above there, I had quite a few hets, but little useable audio except 1566 & 1575. Late, 1287 in JJ came up to useable level, other than that: nothing of use above 1100. High points on the low ba

[IRCA] 837 non CNR1// is Harbin

I just got word from a cradle speaker of standard CC that the 837 Chinese that many of us have been hearing at dawn is Harbin RGD. This is the one that we've been hearing that is not parallel to CNR Program 1, but is in Standard/Beijing/Mandarin/Putongwha Chinese. I've heard what I believe is

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