[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 4

2015-02-04 Thread Bruce Portzer
Conditions were consistently mediocre today, with a handful of weak signals. Some of them produced very weak audio. GOOD Fergeddit, not today FAIR Nope, not today either POOR 594JOAK, weak pips 1500, faint traces of talk later 693JOAB, weak talk, 1458, music, pips 1500 774JOUB,

[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 4

2014-02-04 Thread Bruce Portzer
It never fails. Whenever I compare my TP DX with Dennis and Gary's reports, it's like we're talking about different days. Today was really interesting in several ways. The upper and lower halves of the band behaved completely differently. Signals below about 1100 peaked early, at about

Re: [IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 4

2014-02-04 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
And, different again up here Bruce. One similarity is that the upper band peaked early, but I had a later lower band peak that you missedand there was little here before 1500UT. Nick At 05:38 05-02-14, Bruce wrote: It never fails. Whenever I compare my TP DX with Dennis and Gary's

Re: [IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 4

2014-02-04 Thread Bruce Portzer
It wasn't a matter of missing the later low band peak - I checked the SDR files and there was nothing on the lower part of the dial after about 1400, let alone at 1500 or 1530. Bruce On 2/4/2014 22:02, Nick Hall-Patch wrote: And, different again up here Bruce. One similarity is that the

Re: [IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 4

2014-02-04 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Sorry I didn't convey that well, Bruce. I meant that Seattle missed the low band peak; if it had been there, you would have found it, I'm sure! Nick At 06:14 05-02-14, you wrote: It wasn't a matter of missing the later low band peak - I checked the SDR files and there was nothing on the