Hello All, As Colin and Dennis have reported Asian signals took a step backwards this morning, with only a few big gun TP's showing up. The Japanese and Korean diehards that did show up were far from convincing, and there weren't very many of them. At my 1300 start time the band sounded dreary indeed, with only 594-JOAK and 693-JOAB able to manage anemic audio for a few seconds at a time. 747-JOIB joined these diehards with poor audio in and out of the Portland splatter (and mystery noise) around 1315, while 603-HLSA and 972-HLCA hit threshold levels around 1325. 603-HLSA's deep-voiced male blended in nicely with the noise, and HLSA went under around 1400-- to be replaced by ghostly 603-China audio in and out. None of the above ever managed anything better than fair audio during the entire morning, with 594-JOAK and 693-JOAB the best of a very anemic bunch during the lackluster session. Best Asian signal of a dreary morning was from 693-JOAB at 1408, with apparent NHK2 Korean lessons at a fair level. Hopefully TP propagation will rebound quickly for the Grayland DXpedition this weekend. 693 JOAB Tokyo, Japan Apparent Korean lessons at a fair level over Vancouver splatter at 1408; best Asian signal of a mediocre morning http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4goplmprna2lqrp/693-JOAB-1408z101714PL380.MP3 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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