** JAPAN. Following Bruce Conti`s report of MW from Japan heard in New Hampshire, and also by Bruce Winkleman in Tulsa, I had to try for it myself. Oct 17 at 1225 UT, a sesquihour after T-storms moved thru and I could risk hooking up a new 500-foot antenna wound around the property --- not enough room for it in a straight line --- by golly, on the FRG-7 I did have carriers on 774 and weaker on 747 kHz.
Then I switched to the Yachtboy 400, which happens to be set for 9 kHz spacing, turned on the BFO and slightly detuned it so I could hear hets if there were any carriers on trans-Pacific splits. Antenna here is just the built-in ferrite rod, and with several meters of wire inside the house clipped onto the whip, which probably doesn`t have much effect on MW. By golly, there were plenty of them, and they all fit on the 9 kHz bandplan, so not TVI or something else: At 1235-1242 UT, found 585, 594, 612, 648, 693, 702, 828, 873, 891, 972, 1287, 1305, 1368, 1494, 1557. At first I avoided most frequencies adjacent to 10-kHz, but at 1245 also had carrier on 711 hetting KCMO 710, and something on 621. Meanwhile, at 1243 I went back to 774, and definitely heard audio in Japanese, so I`m claiming JOUB, NHK-2, Akita, which is 500 kW on the NW coast of Honshu. Later checking the path on the NGS globe, I see that it`s tangent to the 59th parallel, i.e. across Kodiak and the SW coast of Alaska, 6000+ miles. Local sunrise here was 1240 UT. 747 Sapporo, Hokkaido, goes one degree further north, but did not get any audio from it. KRMG-740 Tulsa was getting to be a problem, perhaps on day pattern by now. Unfortunately, my box loop is dismantled, my SM-2 no longer works, I don`t have room for beverages, nor is selectivity tight enough on my present receivers for much serious MW DX, but I`m pleased to hear these, with Japan definitely heard here in OK after a good many years, thanks to rock-bottom sunspots and flux (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1378, DX LISTENING DIGEST) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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]
