Hello All, The overactive sun took its toll on Asian signals this morning, with absolute clunker conditions across the North Pacific. Auroral propagation did bring up 738-Tahiti to a fair level in KCBS splatter, however, and some very unusual weak DU heterodynes (with an NZ pattern) showed up here around 1350. The band was dreary indeed at first check around 1245, with only a ghostly signal from 1566-HLAZ in evidence. That was the only Asian to show up with audio here this morning, and none of the other Asians except 1575-VOA were even managing a weak carrier. 1566-HLAZ dived into the noise well before 1300, leaving the band without any Asian audio (or even carriers) for the rest of the session. It looked like the miserable morning would end that way until 738-Tahiti started managing threshold audio in the 740-KCBS splatter around 1330, slowly building up strength until it reached a fair level with French music just prior to the 1400 TOH. The S.F. splatter was oppressive, though, making it necessary to record audio on 737 kHz-- otherwise Tahiti would have sounded somewhat stronger. After a female announcer gave the post-TOH news in French 738-Tahiti also started sliding into the noise at 1405, finishing off a typical auroral session here in this DU-dead zone. A very weak (and rare) pattern of New Zealand heterodynes on 567, 657 and 675 was in evidence around 1350, but none of these ever came close to audio. Fortunately during the summer there were plenty of these Kiwis (at S9 levels) on the Oregon cliffs-- so I didn't feel too disappointed about being shut out this morning :-) 738 Radio Polynesie Mahina, Tahiti Fair level French vocal music at 1353 (in KCBS splatter); best TP signal of the solar-challenged morning http://www.mediafire.com/listen/pcr0krxjgrppn0p/738-R.Polynesie-1353z102214PL380.MP3 Fair level French news by female announcer at 1403, shortly before final signal dive http://www.mediafire.com/listen/sw5zeuc2n5pflc1/738-R.Polynesie-1402z102214PL380.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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