Wow, what a difference a few miles makes (in the case of the Victoria Three, its about 15 miles)!!!
This morning here was about as good as I remember the BEST days from a month ago, and I've got the recordings to prove it. I made an early run at 1315, 90 minutes before dawn, and already things were better than they have been for a while. At dawn enhancement, they were fabulous.... and things lasted AT NEAR FULL STRENGTH after dawn for almost an hour. That normally doesn't happen (at or near full strength) even in Grayland. Due to the lateness of the season, the Japanese were not as good, individually as in late September, but there were loads of them there, including 990-JORK NHK1 Kochi that I only hear very rarely at Grayland. 621 was the NHK1 Synchros.... there are three one kilowatters and one @3 kW, so they don't make it across often. The Hokkaido stations seemed oddly attenuated and 648, the Russian was not there. Korea was about average. China was all over the dial, with all of the usual regionals there... Harbin, Shandung, Anhui and a number of the CNR1s. 918 Shandung was simply HUGE. 1566 was not remarkable, but 1575-VOA was the strongest that I've ever heard it.... possibly the strongest Asian I've ever heard from here. With that in mind, I dropped down to 891 and NAILED Radio Thailand at sometimes good, sometimes fair levels. Most Graylanders have logged that before and Patrick hears it all the time, but I've never heard it before, either at Grayland or here on Orcas Island, so I'm really pleased. Things were so good so long that I had to choose between continuing to DX or eat breakfast before my 1545 UT doctor's appointment. Naturally I chose DX, much to my wife's disgust! Sorry that so many of you missed out on an excellent AM.... I guess that it demonstrates yet again that the ionosphere is a ragged, bumpy and very unpredictable mirror. John B. _______________________________________________ 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]
