Hi, fellas. Just a quickie tonight as I have to go to a talk on global over-fishing in a few minutes, and dinner was late. As John mentions, it was a very strong JJ morning here as well. I slept in a little longer….perhaps I shouldn’t have. Definitely much better than yesterday am (today being 21 August 2008). Started at 12:43 and listened through to 14:19. Lots and lots of JJ all over the band, but China was present with many channels too. Mayak was back with good levels on 549 and especially 576 (very strong). Lots of channels with multiple stations on them, so it’ll be interesting to try and sort those out. The upper band was almost exclusively JJ…Channel after channel. I did not hear any DU this morning. DZME was there on 1530 at 14:07. HLAZ 1566 vey strong as usual, but today I could hear a cochannel at reasonable levels. This is a new phenomenon to me…and it makes sense. Due to the overwhelming local quality of 1566, there is absolutely no noise to contend with. Hence, any cochannels are actually better heard, if only one could tune out the dominant channel. At 13:00, there were 5 + 1 time pips heard. Clearly an oriental language….I’ll have to save it and have the experts have a listen to make heads or tails out of this one. I’m suspecting it’s a Chinese regional station. 1575 was also well heard today, as compared to John’s observation, but cochannel AFN in Japan was also quite strong. Nothing new there. Lot’s of Olympic coverage on both NHK1 and CNR1, so it was easy to listen for // frequencies. No sign of AIR on 1566 yet. 684 is a frequency worth watching. I heard AIR Andaman Is last Sept on this channel. Today there was tantalizing Indian sounding music at 13:35. At 13:37 there was a nice fade-up with some light bantering between a man and woman. Unid language. Again the recorder was on.
Just a few other details. I haven’t been happy with the “famed” NW BOG. Noisy and not very useful. I trouble shot today, and noted that the spliced coax was kind of noisy, so I replaced it, and the transformer, and repaired some old splices in the antenna itself….tomorrow am should tell. Also erected the Wellbrook array….during the day it’s hard to test as there are so few stations around. Anyway, I didn’t notice much when trying in on the few local channels. Fingers crossed. I located it at 315 degrees….identical to the site from last fall. The ALA 100 loop was installed yesterday. It’s about 60’ square (a rectangle actually) and oriented towards the north. Not as good as the mini-Beverage I have, but useful for shortwave channels. Overall, I should have gotten up earlier….OK, tomorrow, I’ll be up by 5:30 am……Good DX to all…..Walt (outside another lodge using their Wi-Fi) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
