As reported from Victoria there were some moderately interesting Asian signals this morning, with better variety than over the weekend. The mid-band Chinese stations on 1017, 1035 and 1044 made weak appearances here around 1330 while the usual NHK big guns struggled somewhat to get out of the noise. Like in Victoria 1575-VOA was the star of the session, reaching fair to good levels both in the predawn darkness and after daybreak. The multiple CNR1 stations on 1035 managed a fair, warbling carrier at my 1320 start time, and came up to poor audio (with their typical echoes) shortly thereafter. About the same time both a presumed 1017-CRI and 1044-CRI managed threshold audio, but neither stuck around for more than a few seconds at a time. 972-HLCA, 1566-HLAZ and 1575-VOA all had good peaks in and out during this predawn darkness, but the Japanese big guns were unusually subdued. A moderate sunrise enhancement around 1410 brought 603-HLSA out of the noise to reach a temporary fair level, while the mid-band Chinese stations sunk back into the noise. 594-JOAK and 747-JOIB joined 972-HLCA and 1575-VOA with fair to good audio peaks around 1415 while a presumed 738-BEL2 and 1134-JOQR came out of the noise to reach brief threshold audio. That was pretty much the story of the session, with several weak Asians providing more variety but no really strong TP stations showing up anywhere on the band. 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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