Hello All, Once again the seemingly dead band managed to resurrect itself with a late peak, but this time the peak was shorter than usual, and included the high band frequencies also. Right up until 1520 the TP's showed very little promise, and it would have been easy to assume that the morning was hopeless. Having seen many times how this late November propagation has weird surprises, however, I kept checking 594, 603, 675, 873, 1494 (John's new TP frequency from yesterday) and 1503 kHz for anything interesting. 594-JOAK came up to moderate audio at 1525 with a weak Chinese co-channel, and 603-HLSA also was noted with Korean news at 1530, all alone on the frequency. Around 1533 these two stations started a fade, and I thought the brief "sunrise peak" was finished. Checking the two high-band stations in the modified ICF-2010's memories, however, I was very surprised to find decent audio on both 1494 and 1503 kHz, the first time TP audio has ever been heard here on 1494 kHz. The 1494 kHz audio noted around 1537 sounded Japanese, but unfortunately there was no 1287 parallel available to check (and I doubt that the station was John's 1 kw Hokkaido catch anyway-- the 10 kw Okayama station would seem much more likely, since the 10 kw 1503-JOUK NHK1 station had similar audio at the time). Unfortunately it faded quickly, so this 1494 kHz station becomes a rare UnID Japanese-- to add to the much more common 15 UnID Chinese noted here during this 2009 TP season. Both of the high-band Japanese stations were gone by 1540 UTC, along with almost all the TP's except the NHK powerhouses (594, 747 and 828), which hung around a little longer at weak levels. So the morning was not a total bust, despite the dreary propagation until 1520. 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 IF filter) 9' and 7.5' (side) PVC tuned passive loops (in the rainy back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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