Hello All, Thanks to Nick, Nigel and Bill for their sunrise TP reports this morning. Having also experienced the recent mediocre strength of the TP's during our west coast sunrise period, I've occasionally checked the propagation to Asia around 0900 UTC, during the Asian sunset period. Although the west coast hour is far from convenient (0100 local), this early morning the Asiatic TP's were really strong on the newly modified Tecsun PL-380 DSP receiver-- with many having the best signals heard for over a month. Although the $45 Tecsun model has no "S" meter, HLCA-972 was like a solid "9" on the stand-alone modified PL-380 at 0906 UTC, with this vibrant signal from the Korean YL announcer: _http://www.mediafire.com/?zylnm2m2jzn_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?zylnm2m2jzn) Tuning around and checking the other Asiatic signals (while the more sensible west coast DXers were sleeping), I found equally strong Japanese signals from 594-JOAK, 747-JOIB and 774-JOUB. 1134 kHz also had a nice mix of JOQR and the KBS Korean, while 657-Pyongyang had some serious strength behind its YL's tirade. Finally I checked 738 kHz, hoping to find a nice signal from the KBS Korean, but instead it was all Taiwan Fisheries with their Chinese call-in program, having this fairly good signal on the modified PL-380 around 0926: _http://www.mediafire.com/?jjjnizymtyz_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?jjjnizymtyz) Because of their freedom from the "soft mute" issue affecting other DSP radio models, the modified PL-380 (and barefoot PL-380's) can tune 1 kHz farther away from domestic splatter to improve reception, and to eliminate heterodynes with domestic stations. This was done with the modified PL-380 during both of the above recordings, so that the 972-HLCA recording was actually made on 973 kHz, and the 738-Taiwan recording was made on 737 kHz. This trick eliminated the 2 kHz heterodynes, and helped the DX stations escape domestic splatter. 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA) Spotting receiver : Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified Tecsun PL-380 (fixed-coil 7.5" loopstick) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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