Re: [IRCA] Second Day at Grayland

[Walter Salmaniw]

At 11:05 AM 9/30/2009, you wrote:
>What a difference a day makes!!!  I guess that I should have expected 
>conditions to tank after the extraordinary morning of the 29th - actually I 
>feared that they would and THEY DID!
>
>The morning was like a slightly below average morning recently on Orcas, 
>though the conditions continued to really favor Japan, such as they were. I 
>managed to add four stations to yesterday's total, two were co-channels not 
>present yesterday: 1260-JOIR, Sendai and 1350, JOER, Hiroshima. The other two 
>: JOIF-1413 and JOUF-1314 were old friends that were either very poor 
>yesterday or were missed in the feeding frenzy.  Also added were 1161- 
>BCC-Country Synchros in Taiwan 

John, that's interesting that you also heard this station.  I had it in at 9 
level around 13:58 whereas not noticed yesterday.  Chuck pointed out that it 
was Taiwan, as all I knew was that it was in CC and I hurried on to the next 
channel!  Didn't have any luck on WYFR, which this year has been a poor 
performer compared to last season.  Here's hoping that your 3rd and last 
morning is a good one.  John, I'd love to hear a sitrep about Grayland itself.  
How's the motel, development around, economy in general, etcWalt



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[IRCA] Second Day at Grayland

[John H. Bryant]

What a difference a day makes!!!  I guess that I should have expected 
conditions to tank after the extraordinary morning of the 29th - 
actually I feared that they would and THEY DID!


The morning was like a slightly below average morning recently on 
Orcas, though the conditions continued to really favor Japan, such as 
they were. I managed to add four stations to yesterday's total, two 
were co-channels not present yesterday: 1260-JOIR, Sendai and 1350, 
JOER, Hiroshima. The other two : JOIF-1413 and JOUF-1314 were old 
friends that were either very poor yesterday or were missed in the 
feeding frenzy.  Also added were 1161- BCC-Country Synchros in Taiwan 
and WYFR-1557, also Taiwan. These are often present on the same 
mornings.  There were a couple of new Sourth Koreans and one new (for 
this trip) Chinese, but that was it. Gee, I wish that I could report 
all sorts of exotic stuff, but it just wasn't there this morning.


There was audio all over the dial at some point or other, but most 
was at murmur level at best. I did have a chance to make two TOH 
recordings of Radio Anhui-936 at 1300 and 1400 and catch the EE news 
from 1403 until about 1412. Was coming in the best of the season, for 
me, so I'll try yet another reception report.


I must say that I was rather dumbfounded to read all of the reports 
from Puget Sound, Victoria AND Patrick that Tuesday, the 29th was a 
"China morning" when I had wall-to-wall Japan with only the most 
prominent CCs making a showing.  Wow. Had it just been the bunch to 
my north hearing China, I'd have thought that it was - maybe - 
understandable but with all of those northern folks and then 
Patrick about an equal distance to my South, I was surrounded by 
Chinese DX and just had the best Japanese morning in memory. Some 
sort of "pipeline propagation," I guess?



John B.
WinRadio 313e + Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array to the NW
Grayland, WA, USA 
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