Thanks to Steve for his report from Arizona (and coincidentally, I made a recording of the same song from 1566-HLAZ as Steve mentioned in his report at 1326). Asian signals were dramatically improved this morning, with the Japanese leading the show. Besides a potent signal from 594-JOAK for most of the session a presumed 1053-JOAR was in a strong mix with the Jammer, while 1134-JOQR was back with its hyper-speed talk for most of sunrise enhancement.
In the predawn darkness at my 1250 start time it was already obvious that propagation was far better than yesterday's, with 594, 693, 747, 828, 1053 and 1566 having fair audio peaks in and out, and the mid-band Chinese stations on 1017, 1035 and 1044 at threshold level. 594-JOAK went on a strong run around 1300 but the most interesting signal was a strong mix on 1053, with the Jammer's co-channel having Japanese intonation (probably JOAR, somewhat unusual here). The Korean stations on 603, 657 and 972 all managed weak audio in and out throughout sunrise enhancement but the main star of the session was 594-JOAK, which held very good strength for a full half hour period from 1300-1330. Late on around 1325 another powerful signal showed up from 1566-HLAZ, while 1575-VOA was in and out of audio at the same time. The best Chinese mid-band performer of the session was 1044-CRI, which came up with a few peaks of fair speech around 1323 which could be identified as Japanese. Overall the Asian propagation had good variety and strength, although it was primarily the big gun TP's showing up. 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Very good level Japanese female and male speech at 1328 https://app.box.com/s/nzdbuxi3bai4ounvbhmf2mbdyiled49p 1053 JOAR Nagoya, Japan Presumed the one with Japanese intonation in a strong mix with the Korean jammer at 1303; somewhat unusual here https://app.box.com/s/pwud5bd8o2wi2geu6566hfdyyc4xk3zz 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea "In Christ the Solid Rock I Stand" song at a very good level at 1326 (mentioned by Steve in his Arizona report) https://app.box.com/s/mx1mi6i0m1k23hz2i2s45qf5wxhl3rrc 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna (in the rainy back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. Registration info: http://www.nrcdxas.org Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
