Asian big gun signals improved pretty dramatically this morning but after yesterday's clunker session most of the second tier TP's seemed to stay fairly anemic. There were modest appearances of 603, 657 and 738 around daybreak but Chinese signals seemed stuck around threshold levels.
At my 1300 start time 972-HLCA was back with a huge S9 signal, while the Japanese on 594, 693 and 747 had good peaks in and out. 657-Pyongyang's martial music reached a fair to good level (along with its self-generated hum) at 1310, becoming the strongest of the second tier Asians to show up during the session. Although both 603-HLSA's Korean female announcer and the standard Chinese-speaking lady on 738-BEL2 had some fair audio peaks at maximum daybreak enhancement (around 1325) neither station could maintain audio for more than a few seconds at a time. The NHK big guns on 594, 693 and 747 had good peaks in and out but never reached the huge level of 972-HLCA, while 657-Pyongyang sank into the noise before its 3+1 pips at 1330. After the KCBS fadeout at 1335 the signal from 738-BEL2 was all alone but too anemic to record, while the usual Chinese on 639, 756 and 981 never got past threshold level here. Overall it was a pretty mediocre session, but after yesterday, who is comp laining? 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca 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]
