Hello All, Thanks to Nick for his sunrise TP report this morning. Alerted by some decent East Coast receptions of TA's last night, a check of the TP conditions was made at 0945 early this morning (0145 local time), and to my surprise, the Japanese and Korean "big guns" had the best TP signals heard here for the last three weeks. 594-JOAK, 747-JOIB and 972-HLCA all were pretty vibrant, including this recording made of 972-HLCA using the newly created 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 (assisted by a 3' bedside PVC loop): _http://www.mediafire.com/?v1kmv4whwzb_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?v1kmv4whwzb) . Some testing was done by shifting the newly modified PL-380's tuned frequency up to 973 kHz during the reception of 972-HLCA, to remove the 2 kHz heterodyne, and get further away from the 970 domestic splatter. This was very effective, as shown in this short recording where the frequency was shifted to 973 kHz at the three second point: _http://www.mediafire.com/?yqvv5memtz5_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?yqvv5memtz5) The same trick has been tried with the Tecsun PL-310 model, but unfortunately the "soft mute" issue greatly reduces the DX station's signal strength when the frequency is shifted 1 kHz away, making the procedure counterproductive. For this reason, the new PL-380 really is a significant improvement over the PL-310 for ULR transoceanic DXers. 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified Tecsun PL-380 (7.5" fixed-coil loopstick) 3" collapsible-frame PVC loop (bedside) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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