Re: [IRCA] The season so far.

[d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx]

<<< I don't have the same data to back up my thoughts, but my observations 
here (even prior to reading Nick's post) was that Asia is down 
considerably from last year, and the DUs are better than at the same 
time in 2016. Usually by mid September I've had several decent Asian 
days, whereas this year I had one back in August and nothing since. >>> 

Asian results here so far this month have been very similar to Nigel's, with a drastic downtown in TP-DX in comparison to last September. 

It's usually a pretty tough transition to switch from ocean coast DU-DXing to chasing big gun Asians at this mediocre inland location, but at least in previous years there were a few interesting signals on frequencies like 603, 657, 738 and 1593 to assist in the process. All of those have been completely lacking so far this month. Fortunately there are still a few ocean coast DU recordings from the Lincoln City, OR eclipse trip (August 20-23) to review here. 

Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 



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From: "Nigel Pimblett" <nige2730@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2017 2:50:27 PM 
Subject: Re: [IRCA] The season so far. 

Very interesting - thanks to you and Bill W for compiling/sharing. I 
don't have the same data to back up my thoughts, but my observations 
here (even prior to reading Nick's post) was that Asia is down 
considerably from last year, and the DUs are better than at the same 
time in 2016. Usually by mid September I've had several decent Asian 
days, whereas this year I had one back in August and nothing since. For 
DUs I've probably had audio on about the same number of days as last 
year, but last year it was nearly always 4BC on 1116 and/or Newstalk ZB 
on 1035. This year I've had audio from a wider range of stations. 
Can't comment too much on HF conditions, as with the loss of so many 
broadcasters that had quality programming my program listening has gone 
down to nearly nil. I still check the bands sometimes from a DXing 
perspective, but lately that's been limited to checking out the new Ozy 
Radio on 5045. 

73, 

Nigel 

On 9/17/2017 7:10 AM, Nicholas Hall-Patch wrote: 
> http://tivodxer.com/date_input_form_multi.html will allow you to enter 
> dates from last season (the earliest date indicated is incorrect; 
> summer of 2016 is also there.) Compare that with the latest 
> information at http://tivodxer.com/jpgraph_example_multigraph1.php 
> which shows conditions for the last 60 days this season. 
> 
> The bottom two graphs are DU and TP DX quantity/quality from 
> Victoria. Last season had somewhat better Asia, and this season, 
> somewhat better DU. As a host of other geomagnetic indices are also 
> graphed, you can speculate as to the reasons for this in a supposedly 
> declining solar cycle. 
> 
> This has previously been documented on the IRCA list (other lists too 
> I believe), and is compiled by Bill Whitacre. 
> 
> 73, 
> 
> Nick 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:48 PM, R. Colin Newell 
> <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: 
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong but is this season lagging last season in 
> overall quality? 
> 
> Colin Newell - SYSTEMS UVic - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -- 
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