Hello Guy, The weird "Puyallup effect" works both ways. I never heard any of your reported DU's this month, or any of your high-band Japanese catches. Your high-band loggings are generally better than what I experience here. Your antenna is certainly superior to the loops I have been using, but it seems like this NW Puyallup location has some compensating advantage on the low band, possibly because of a minor salt water effect from Puget Sound (about 4 miles away). Often the low-band Asians will show up here with good audio, even on the days when others report them as mediocre. On this morning, for example, 639, 657, 666, 675 and 738 all had good audio from Asia, along with a weak Asian on 792 which was an UnID with threshold audio. 73, Gary In a message dated 9/14/2009 9:45:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, d...@guyatkins.com writes:
Hi Gary, What a difference a few miles can make! I reviewed my Perseus WAV files from this morning, and found NOTHING on 639 kHz around 1335 UTC. Only earlier, around 1315, did I find any scraps of audio. It was so weak and splatter covered that I couldn't identify the language to tell if it was Chinese or not...absolutely NOTHING like the MP3 you sent me of 639 as heard on your ultralights this morning. >From my side of Puyallup, the best signals were 972 HLCA South Korea and 1575 VOA Thailand, at fair to good levels 1245-1345 most of the time. I only found a weak het on 1332 kHz at 1330. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA www.perseus-sdr.blogspot.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:15:55 EDT > From: d1028g...@aol.com > To: irca@hard-core-dx.com > Subject: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA TP's for 9-14... Uneven Results > Message-ID: <ce4.5ce9f4e3.37e04...@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello All, > > Once again, some stations seemed to defy the generally lackluster > conditions here, with Chinese stations especially bucking the trend. > > 639-CNR1 had its best signal of the month here, providing good audio for > an MP3 at 1335. Audio was also noted on 936 and 738 (presumed Taiwan), but > not nearly as strong as on 639. Other than these exceptions, the morning > was > nothing to shout about, and as usual here, DU's failed to cross the South > Hill barrier. > > 73, Gary > > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com
