First morning DXing back home and it was a good one. Wish that I'd gotten up at regular time, but the rack was warm and I didn't hit the dials until 45 minutes before sunrise.... 1405 UTC. The low band was just about as good as I've ever seen it from here and China/some Koreans were favored over the Japanese... who were doing fairly well themselves. High band above 1200 was just fair, for some reason.
Some of the better loggings: 621 Heilonjiang doing well, 675 Hanoi was the best of the season, so far... very good at times, I had TP audio on both 719.844 and 720... KCBS and CNR, 738 almost certainly//1143 Taiwan Fisheries. Both were in well at times, but never both good at same time... when one was good and the other poor, they seemed in // (??), 774 and 828 were both unlistenable at times with the CHinese signals being at last equal with the very strong JJs. I swear that there were at least four separate echos on CNR2. It sounded like shouting down a verrry deep well. After dawn, I noted 738 had become KBS and was // to 756. I also had the first audio in quite a while out of 1557, presumed WYFR. The most interesting semi-logging was Japanese on 702. There are two moderate-size NHK2s there, but this JJ was not // either NHK Service. I'm "almost certain" its an unlisted JJ Service from either the Koreas or China. I think that I'll send a recording and an inquiry to the Chinese. Well after LSR, 702 was // to NHK2. Hummmmmm. Lastly, the band stayed in for at least an hour past dawn..... my stomach and bladder finally forced me to quit. However, as I type this at almost 11AM, I've still got a het on 1566. 774 lasted as a het until 10:40AM (1740 UT) and then was finally gone. HLAZ presumed is beginning to disappear briefly before fighting its way back. If it will just hang in a few more minutes, I will have had it last until noon, local standard time!!! Can't wait to hear what Patrick vacuumed up..... John B. P.S. To Guy and others with a new Eton E-1, it is possible to overload that puppy. When I turned it on this AM, I accidentally had 20 dB of outboard RF amplifier, and the E-1s own pre-amp on... and everything was hooked to my 65' x 100' EWE pointed at a huge number of Vancouver's 50 kW stations, 20 sea miles away!!! Seemed like I had four or five distorted signals mixing alllll over the dial. When I turned off alla the extra RF amps, the E-1 became the DXing sweetheart that it really is............ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
