Hello All, I'm happy that Walt and John found sound interesting TP's this morning, but my own impressions were closer to Nigel's. In comparison to the great conditions we have experienced recently in October, this morning seemed like a fizzler. Frequencies of interest (549, 612, 684, 729 and 801) seemed pretty hopeless, and the TP's that usually boom in here (594, 603, 657, 738 and 747) were down in strength-- at least during the 1400-1435 period I was listening (before the late peak that Walt noted). After the report from Bruce about VOR possibly being absent from 648 kHz, I spent about 10 minutes on the frequency this morning trying to dig out the threshold audio, which was certainly was there, but not clear enough for language recognition. Checking the 639-CNR1 and 657-Pyongyang audio next to 648, both stations were weaker than they would be on a good morning-- so it's not surprising that 648 wasn't going to boom in. My guess is that there was something like Chinese conversation on the frequency. Like everybody else, I had noticed that 648 wasn't performing like last season, but until Bruce's report I had assumed that it was simply a weaker VOR, and passed the frequency by. Around 1435 the band seemed hopeless, so I didn't stick around for the late peak that Walt noticed. Even so, without the salt water and DU propagation that Walt has, the late peak may never have made it here. Considering the great propagation on previous October days (and the surprise logging of HLQH-558 yesterday), though, I'll be thankful for what I have :-) 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' PVC-frame tuned passive loop (in the back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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