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Re: [IRCA] Kona, Hawaii Ultralight DU's for 12-17

Thanks Walt and Nick,


846-Christmas Island is by far the strongest DU here in Kona, but it seems to have a serious issue with the transmitter cutting out intermittently. It did this about 3 times last night. I recall that Bryan Clark of NZ also mentioned that the signal was gone on one of the recent days-- maybe the same issue?


The 19-second delay with 1440-Kiribati also seems pretty bizarre, but it was checked repeatedly last night and confirmed. Both 846 and 1440-Kiribati are easy catches here in Kona, so the delayed programming is pretty obvious.


Wish you guys were here-- 80 degrees F today!


Gary


> On December 17, 2017 at 12:53 PM Volodya S <canswl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>     Interesting about the 19 sec delay, as the delay is maybe 1 second only between the on-line relay and 846 itself!   73,  Walt Salmaniw, Victoria.
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>     On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx mailto:d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
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>         > > The 5 inch (127mm) Frequent Flyer FSL started tracking down the DU's right away here in Kona this evening, but T-storm activity made reception of the weaker DU's a little dicey. I was able to confirm a 19-second time delay between the programming on 846-Kiribati (Christmas Island) and 1440-Kiribati (Tarawa), as documented in one of the MP3's linked below. The sign-off routine off 1440-Kiribati was also confirmed to still start at 0933 UTC, with the loud 1000 tone still there until power is cut at 0936. 846-Kiribati seems to have intermittent transmitter issues, as documented in one of the MP3's below. 1098-Marshalls was S9+ around 0700, but the signals from 540-2AP, 558-Fiji and 1017-Tonga were hit hard by the T-storms. 621-Tuvalu was somewhere in between, with fair to good strength female speech (in English) at 0724. Other than that is was another awesome evening in Kona, where the temperature was 79 degrees today.
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