Hello All,
Asian sunset skip during the 0900-1000 UTC period was unusually good this
early morning, perhaps continuing the excellent SSS trend noted by KAZ and
others last night. Several big gun TP's (594, 693, 747, 972, 1053 and 1566)
came in with vibrant signals off and on, along with 558-JOCR. During this
period 657-Pyongyang and 738-Taiwan both managed fair audio, and 1053 kHz had
another TP on it besides the Jammer. 747-JOIB even had its best signal of the
entire season during this bizarre early morning period, although an unusual
foreign language program was being broadcast on NHK2 around 0940, with apparent
Russian speech from both female and male announcers (MP3 link below).
The Asiatic big guns were still at decent strength during quick checks of
the band at 1320 and 1400 this morning, but now (at 1450 UTC) the TP signals
seem to have dropped off of a cliff. Overall the Asian sunset skip period again
provided the best TP signals this morning, but the very inconvenient local time
for such DXing (0200-0300) probably ensures that not too many west coast DXers
will warm up to the idea. Except for Nick's reporting of the long-range TP's
being received at good levels on PEI around this time during the current
DXpedition, even I would probably have had the better sense to stay asleep.
558 JOCR Kobe, Japan Fair-good rapid Japanese YL speech at
0933; in and out of KPQ splatter
594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Good male-female Japanese
conversation at 0922
657 Pyongyang, N. Korea Poor-fair Korean male tirade at 0928
693 JOAB Tokyo, Japan Rising up to fair level through splatter
around 0930
738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Threshold level Chinese OM speech
in and out around 0939
747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Best signals of season with apparent
Russian foreign language broadcast at 0940
http://www.mediafire.com/?r0da6kkj15a61pz
828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Fair-good foreign language broadcast
at 0942
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Good Korean YL pop music at
0918 http://www.mediafire.com/?z0rpy2x4ku5haya
1053 Korean Jammer Fair-good buzz during listening session;
an UnID TP with music underneath at 0951 (JOAR?)
1134 UnID Music station in and out of Vancouver splatter at
0917; either JOQR (probable) or KBS
1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Good Korean language Christian
program in and out from 0900-0945
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" MW loopstick Tecsun PL-380 +
8" Medium Wave FSL (DXing indoors, due to heavy rain)
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