At 08:04 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote: >At 15:58 1/14/2009, you wrote: > >>774 borderline audio at 1500 UTC >> >>828 near imaginary het >> >>972 het. > >The secret seems to be to start earlier these mornings, though even then, the >pickings are slim, just not quite so slim as later. (mind you, the propagation >monitor shows that JOAK-594 peaked at 1110UT this morning which is a bit early >to be getting up) > >At 1344UT, 774 and 828 both had reasonable, but not outstanding audio, and 873 >had audio traces (all NHK2). But, I needed to go to work, so didn't listen >much later on while preparing for the day; every time I checked it was just >that little bit worse it seemed. I must have missed the opening that Dennis >had, though... > >Nick > This is most interesting, fellas! Why I say this is that this simply is NOT the case further north from my Queen Charlotte DX site. I've tried plenty of times getting up very early....11:00 UTC ish, and the results have been poor to say the least. However, around dawn, things just take off in a major way and continue for hours after dawn in the winter, and perhaps 30 to 60 minutes in the spring/summer/fall. I really wonder what would explain this. It would be very interesting to set up Nick's propagation monitor on the Charlottes and view the results over a season or two! .....Walt.
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