Hi Walt, Thanks for the Masset report, we are all eager to read your daily TP (and TA) reports once your DXpedition team gets fully set up! This morning was fairly average for TP reception here in Puyallup, with a couple of exceptions. 1044 kHz had an interesting mix of CRI's Japanese and a co-channel (that sounded like Korean to me), but there wasn't any KBS parallel available to check at the time (and the ones that I was trying for wouldn't have worked anyway, according to Chuck :-) Dennis heard the same 1044 mix at Grayland this morning. Your European, Middle East and African TA-DX in Masset always sounds very exotic in this mediocre DXing location, from which Guy has temporarily bailed. About this time last year most of the TP-DXers were eagerly reading the daily Asian DX reports from you and Nick in Victoria, and John on Orcas Island. They are really missed, although several of us have attempted to post our own. Unfortunately, Puyallup is far from prime DXing territory, and if it were not for the bizarre 9' box loop in the back yard, I would probably be limited to receiving the same "big guns" over and over. Good luck to all of your team! 73, Gary In a message dated 9/22/2010 2:33:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, can...@gmail.com writes:
Hi, Gary! Up here in Masset, reception was unusual here. The worst reception since last Saturday morning. The BOGs died early today, being replaced by the ALA 100 for best TP reception....this in itself was very unusual. The big news was last night: Best TA reception since Friday night. Many, many TAs with the best for me being 1476 Cotonou (Benin, Africa) in French at almost excellent levels, but as usual for TAs this would fade rapidly up and down. Not sure which direction conditions are heading. We'll be active until Monday morning in any case. NHK2 signed off the past 2 mornings at 14:40. About 50% of the stations give an ID locally then, with the rest just a network NHK ID. Good fun! The hot TA performer is the Wellbrook array. Andy Ilkin will be pleased to hear this, although it continues to underperform in a major way in the mornings. More in the coming days! ..........Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM, <_d1028g...@aol.com_ (mailto:d1028g...@aol.com) > wrote: Hello All,! It was a morning of fairly average September TP propagation here, generally following Nigel's description of the regular Asians at decent strength, but the second-tier TP stations having weaker signals. As usual, however, there were major exceptions to the script, including a strong TP mix on 1044 kHz (which Dennis also heard at Grayland, on his E100), and a bizarre S9 fade-in of 648-Voice of Russia at 1356 (after the TP propagation had apparently fizzled out, and my ICF-2010 spotting receiver had been shut off). The "best bet" Asian lineup from 639- 675 kHz (639-China, 648-VOR, 657-North Korea, 666-JOBK, and 675-Vietnam) was back to regular decent strength after some weakness yesterday, and 738-Taiwan was restored to its normal strength (along with a rough-sounding carrier). 1044 kHz was the most interesting frequency of the morning, as I heard (and recorded) the same strong TP mix that Dennis received at Grayland. Around 1348 there was a real battle on the frequency, apparently with both Korean and Japanese voices. The Japanese is undoubtedly CRI's foreign broadcast to Japan, but the apparent Korean was a mystery. I searched for a KBS parallel to check, but none were at decent strength at the time (972 and 1134 kHz were in fades). Dennis' Grayland report of pop Asian music mixing with China (in Japanese) on 1044 kHz gives additional evidence that this was probably the KBS station that we both heard, since Asian pop music is a standard KBS format. We probably won't ever be sure, but the 10 kw 1044 kHz KBS station would be an all-time new Ultralight TP catch, if confirmed by either of us in the future. Dennis, thanks again for your very useful Grayland reports! The other strange occurrence here was a full-strength fade in of 648-VOR right after the band had apparently died at 1355 (with the back yard in full sunlight). My ICF-2010 spotting receiver had already been taken inside, and I was in the process of wrapping up when I heard booming music signals on the "barefoot" SWP, which had fortunately been left on 648 kHz. I rushed over to the 9' loop and recorded an S9 signal of Russian music, right after every TP frequency had been written off as "dead." This was bizarre enough to fully awaken any half-asleep TP-DXer. The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP model (7.5" loopstick) inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the back yard): 558 JOCR Kobe, Japan Fair strength with Japanese music around 1307 585 JOPG Kushiro, Japan Fair-poor with deep fades around 1309, // 594 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Good strength Japanese conversation at 1308 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Fair KBS music program w/CC QRM, 1311 639 CNR1 (China) Fair to good music and Chinese speech at 1319 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Good Chinese program signals, then weird S9 fade-in after band was "dead" __http://www.mediafire.com/?tbw4cx2z0wfgm7d__ (http://www.mediafire.com/?tbw4cx2z0wfgm7d_) (_http://www.mediafire.com/?tbw4cx2z0wfgm7d_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?tbw4cx2z0wfgm7d) ) 657 Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Angry shouts from YL (?) back at full strength 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan Fair-good for most of morning with NHK1 talk 675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Good strength In and out with Vietnamese talk 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Good Chinese pop music signals o/KK at 1332 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Strong Japanese talk over KXL splatter, 1318 756 CNR1 (China) Fair strength at 1333 with Chinese music program 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Good strength but no match for KTTH splatter 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Radio English Conversation program at fair-good strength around 1326 __http://www.mediafire.com/?28mtse9kz7e7m08__ (http://www.mediafire.com/?28mtse9kz7e7m08_) (_http://www.mediafire.com/?28mtse9kz7e7m08_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?28mtse9kz7e7m08) ) 891 JOHK Sendai, Japan Poor-fair Japanese talk program at 1335, // 594 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Fair Korean music program around 1320 1035 CNR1 (China) Good strength speech and music but deep fades, 1345 1044 TP-Mix A strong mix of Japanese (from CRI) and apparent Korean at 1348; KBS // not available to check at the time, but apparent music at other times __http://www.mediafire.com/?eu4tqayzt6164or__ (http://www.mediafire.com/?eu4tqayzt6164or_) (_http://www.mediafire.com/?eu4tqayzt6164or_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?eu4tqayzt6164or) ) 1053 Korean Jammer Weaker than usual this morning, with CC competition 1053 UnID Chinese Back with the "restaurant music," in and out at fair level (thanks to Dennis for his Grayland report on this ID-adverse station) 1134 TP-Mix Standard September shootout of JOQR and KBS at good level 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair-good with Japanese religious program, 1301 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Asiatic language program at poor level, 1300 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list _i...@hard-core-dx.com_ (mailto:IRCA@hard-core-dx.com) _http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca_ (http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca) Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: _http://www.ircaonline.org_ (http://www.ircaonline.org/) To Post a message: _i...@hard-core-dx.com_ (mailto:irca@hard-core-dx.com) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
