Re: [IRCA] Feb 9, 2018 Morning TP's

2018-02-09 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
I don't know Gary. That was a pretty strong reception of HLCA by Victoria standards. I recall that you heard Asians pretty well when you listened regularly for them, and that you usually heard Chinese and Koreans better than I hear them in Victoria.There's this big block of stone

Re: [IRCA] Feb 9, 2018 Morning TP's

2018-02-09 Thread Gary DeBock
Hi Guys, During antenna testing this morning I had an unattended 8" FSL set up to record 972-HLCA throughout the sunrise period, and it came up with some fairly strong Korean female vocal music at 1512 UTC. I don't know what the signal was like in Victoria, but this mediocre location sometimes

Re: [IRCA] Feb 9, 2018 Morning TP's

2018-02-09 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
There seemed to be a boost around 1520UT for about 10 or 15 minutes, and there was mostly quite sharp changes in signal strength; very erratic. Full report later. At 16:41 2018-02-09, R. Colin Newell wrote: Hall-Patch fish barrel lit up at 1500 UTC. I got out of the shower at 1515 and

[IRCA] Feb 9, 2018 Morning TP's

2018-02-09 Thread R. Colin Newell
Hall-Patch fish barrel lit up at 1500 UTC. I got out of the shower at 1515 and took a look - The NRD525 revealed quite a few audio and lots of hets upper band. As Nick has suggested, a KAZ antenna will be better than an end-fed Ham 80-10 non directional. Audio: 774, 1566, 1575 Great carriers -