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- Subject: Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 9-19
- From: d1028gary@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:09:19 -0400
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Hello All,
Those who were looking for better Asian signals this morning were in for a pretty rude shock as the band delivered a "check your antenna" type of session. The usual Japanese and Korean big guns never made it to audio level, and except for a strange high-band kick very late in sunrise enhancement there was no Asian audio at all.
The session started out in dreary fashion at 1235 without even a decent Asian carrier to be found. 774-JOUB rose up in carrier strength around 1350 to apparently manage a few weak seconds of poor audio in the Seattle splatter, but this may have been imaginary. Nothing else happened until very late in sunrise enhancement around 1340, when an apparent 1503-JOUB (of all stations) came up in strength enough to manage a few weak seconds of garbled audio. This was followed by a few seconds of ghostly audio on 1575 (apparently VOA), and the same type of poor signal in Seattle splatter on 1593, apparently from CNR1. This high band revival fizzled out almost as soon as it got started, with propagation collapsing around 1345. It was altogether a miserable morning-- but not a great surprise this new season.
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight +
15" FSL antenna
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