As Colin has reported a very diverse and vibrant collection of Asians in the predawn darkness was hit pretty hard by a negative "sunrise enhancement," causing many of them to bail by 1400. The ones that did stick around after that were mainly the NHK big guns, although 1575-VOA had a pretty impressive late run around 1440. At my 1320 start time the Asians were diverse and powerful, with 1566-HLAZ almost at local-like strength, and 594, 693, 747, 972, 1053 and 1575 all managing good signals in and out. 738-BEL2 was peaking at fair strength in the SF splatter, while 603-HLSA, 1134-JOQR and 1503-JOUK were in and out of the noise. Most of these took a major swoon around 1345, though, and had fizzled out to almost nothing by 1400. 738-BEL2 was one of the notable exceptions, maintaining fair peaks until around 1415, and the NHK big guns did return with fair to good power after that. 1575-VOA managed a late surge around 1430 that was pretty dramatic, rising out of the noise to reach sustained fair to good signals from 1430-1440. That was pretty much the story of a puzzling session which failed to deliver on its early potential. 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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