Walt and Colin have already described this morning's propagation very accurately-- another session featuring the regular Japanese and Korean big guns. There were a few second-tier Asians showing up weakly on 603, 657 and 738, but none of them could stick around for more than a few minutes at a time. At my 1300 start time it seemed like the session might have some potential, as the usual big guns on 594 (fair), 747 (fair), 972 (fair to good) and 1566 (good) were joined by threshold-level signals from 603-HLSA, 657-Pyongyang and a presumed 738-BEL2. These three second-tier Asians continued to slide in and out of the noise for the rest of the session, with 603-HLSA reaching a poor to fair level with KBS2's deep-voiced male at 1346 (this was almost certainly Colin's UnID). A wimpy sunrise enhancement failed to boost anything, although 693-JOAB, 747-JOIB, 972-HLCA and 1566-HLAZ all managed good levels at times during the session. Best signal of the morning was from 972-HLCA with its Korean male speech at 1351. Overall the session was somewhere between lackluster and lame, with very little variety in the Asian signals. 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Ghostly deep-voiced male introducing eerie music at 1346-- Halloween-level signal https://app.box.com/s/c436s3v2i2zt4pity7lsx0zgyi4op6ny 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Korean male speech at good level at 1351, but not quite free of "Freedom 970" https://app.box.com/s/nl2623ceyc9glpbf98uho2qa9obdmra9 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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