Hello All, Like John, Walt, Dennis and Nigel, I noticed that the band in general was not near its peak levels, but there was some bizarre DX on 585 and 594 (apparently from China) that had never been heard here for the entire season. The back yard was near freezing at 1400 UTC when I set up the 9' box loop, but there was a fringe benefit-- the cold weather dropped the lowest resonant frequency of the largest tuned loop down to around 530 kHz. For the first time this season, I was able to check 585 and 594 kHz using this high gain antenna, and it made a critical difference. Around 1423 a station on 585 kHz playing Chinese opera music rose up way over the usual JOPG NHK1 station to dominate the frequency for about 5 minutes, as JOPG dropped into the noise. The Chinese opera music continued in a leisurely fashion during the entire period, then faded out as suddenly as it had come. By 1434 JOPG was back weakly on the frequency // 594, with no hint of the Chinese opera station. Weird! Like John and Walt, I heard (and recorded) the Chinese station mixing with JOAK on 594 kHz. Both stations were of approximately equal strength here from 1435-1440. Unfortunately the recording didn't provide any ID clues, so another UnID Chinese is added to the list (of 8) that the new 9' PVC loop has received so far. 648 kHz didn't have much audio this morning, and the high and mid-band was generally down in strength. Except for the strange Chinese visitors on the low band, it would have been a mediocre morning-- but this late in the season I'll be thankful for anything new that comes in :-) 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 filter) 9' (side) tuned passive loop (in a cold back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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