On Mar 2, 1:52*am, bpnjensen wrote:
Reception from the S. Pacific is unusually bad here in California
2nite.

I am used to SIBC Honiara being hit or miss, and Bangkok
Meteorological Radio too, but R. Australia on 9660 sounds like a
distant weak station, bad fluttery fading, and R. New Zealand I. on
11725, usually an S-9+ powerhouse, is MIA completely. *Not even a het
on USB. *Weird, since Europe is just fine and Latin America is
slightly better than usual.

Bruce

South Pacific stations are not very powerful to begin with. Even
R.Australia and R New Zealand usually do not have stable signal over
here on the East Coast during better propagation times. SIBC on
5020KHz is normally impossible to catch on any of my receivers (must
be low powertransmitter). And RHC is all over the dial day and
night.