Hello All,
As Dennis has already reported, it was one of the worst clunker sessions of the entire season (and the term "mid-October anomaly" comes to mind). The Asians were comatose right up until around 1345, when a few carriers from the big guns on 594, 693, 774 and 972 started to flirt with audio. By 1400 the three NHK die-hards (594-JOAK, 693-JOAB and 774-JOUB) managed a few seconds of poor audio in and out, followed by 1503-JOUK at 1405 and 1575-VOA at 1407 (both of them at threshold levels). Finally at 1410 the Korean big gun 972-HLCA became the star of the morning by rising up out of the dead for a minute and managing a fair peak with Korean speech-- only to crash back down into the noise a few seconds later. It was a thoroughly mediocre session overall, with all the second-tier Asians missing in action, and even the 1053-Jammer jammed up. At least the conditions can only get better tomorrow. 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight + 12" Medium Wave FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] 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: [email protected]
