Just read Gary's comments, and I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing. How the heck does John figure out when to go to Grayland, on a morning like this....easily the best I've heard so far this season except for one problem: Didn't get up until 14:07 UTC (that baby yesterday morning must have caught up with me :-( ). New immediately that things were good when 1566, 774 and 612 were all booming in with Korea, Japan and Australia all there. My star antenna performer this morning was my newest Conti corner fed loop aimed 244 degrees. I erected it early this summer, and it's my tallest and widest antenna. Man it sure worked well for the DU stations on today. I had problems with it overloading from 1070 earlier in the summer, but this was all due to it's input being fed into a multicoupler which added amplification and hence the overloading. I removed that from the mix and am using passive splitters instead, without amplification and now things are working just fine. ! Sure wish that I'd gotten up a bit earlier. Also, if there's any further justification to owning the Perseus SDR on a morning like this, well there you go. I'd absolutely love to have been at Grayland with my Perseus SDR downloading the entire spectrum for weeks and months of fun afterwards! Here I go with the abbreviated results, with "6" unless otherwise noted. By the way, SF 67 A 4 and K 0.....excellent indices although the TAs were a major disappointment here with little activity.
567 JJ at 7 level. 576: DU at 7.5 level 594: 8 level JOAK with DU cochannel, which sounded // to 612. 612: Brisbane at 9 level 621: CC at 7 level 648: Presumed Russian station at 7 level 666: JJ at 8.5 level 675: Vietnamese at 7 level 684: either JJ or KK at 7 level 693: 9 level JOAB 702 738: 2NR at 9 level at 14:20 747: 9 level JOIB with Italian lessons 756 774: 9 level JOUB and DU station at 14:27 783, 792 801: KTWG at 14:24 with religious music at 7 level 828: 8.5 level NHK2 864: 7 level 945 954: 7 level ?JJ 963: CRI Russian at 7 level 972: KK at 8 level 1017: 6 at 14:30 1107 1242: JJ at 14:32 7 level 1287: 7 level JJ 1305, 1503 1557: WYFR Taiwan at 14:37 at 7 level. 1566: 8 level HLAZ early, and still 7.5 at 14:38. Quite an incredible morning. Can't wait to hear from John in Grayland! From a very windy morning in Victoria....Walt. _______________________________________________ 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]
