Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-21

2016-11-21 Thread R. Colin Newell
It begs the question - this was 1 of a single handful of days with really good conditions. This morning the tropical SW bands were lit up like a Christmas tree. Is today an example of normal and settled conditions? And all those other days were simply indicative of a truly crappy season that we

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-21

2016-11-21 Thread d1028gary
As Richard and the Victoria DXers have reported Asian signal strength increased pretty dramatically this morning, with sunrise enhancement delivering a potent boost to the high band TP's. 1593-CNR1 ended up with its best signals of the season at 1511 (very good, on peaks), although it was in a w

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-21

2015-11-21 Thread d1028gary
It wasn't exactly a stellar morning. Besides a fair signal from 1566-HLAZ at 1420 the other big gun Japanese and Koreans struggled to get out of the noise, finally ending up somewhat short of yesterday's mediocre performance. 594 and 972 managed threshold audio for brief seconds around 1435 but

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-21

2014-11-21 Thread d1028gary
Hello All,   Asian propagation must have gone south to Arizona this morning, since no TP audio managed to show up here in Puyallup. It was almost a complete clunker session, with only a ghostly carrier on 1053 just prior to 1500 UTC. Fortunately there are some recent Grayland recordings here t

[IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 11-21

2010-11-21 Thread D1028Gary
Hello All, It's great that Nigel noticed some exciting Asian signals this morning, which certainly was a better result than the west coast seemed to experience. Thanks also to Nick for his comment about "burning both ends of the DXing candle," a dubious TP-chasing strategy which (against