John Bryant has all the luck travelling on such a lackluster day! I listened between 13:36 (slept in a bit) and 14:13 and was underwhelmed with what I heard. Only the 1st tier JJ stations seemed to make it through. Highlight, though, was hearing English from North Korea at 14:04 // 3250. Never heard that before and worth checking previous SDR files. I tuned today from 936 up, then 936 down (936 being the center frequency of my SDR recordings). It's a good bellweather station, since when conditions are good, it can be pretty strong, and when not, there's not much there (as there was today). By the way, I revamped my W wire by raising it about 20' to the top of our large fir trees in the back yard, so expecting a big improvement in gain from an already hot antenna (this is a Conti corner fed broadband loop). SF 72, A8, K2. As always "6" unless otherwise noted:
531, 567, 576 585: JOPG at 7 594: JOAK at 9 603: 7 level oriental at 14:08 612: 8.5 level Brisbane at 14:11 (very little else from DU today). 657: English news at 14:04 //3250. This is obviously North Korea. Never heard English there before! 7 to 8 level. 666: JOBK at 8 at 14:03 738: 2 cochannel CC talk and music at 7 level. 747: JOIB at 7 only 774: JOUB at 9 at 14:00 801: 6 only. Wobbly carrier on high side today 828: JOBB at 9 846 873: JOGB at 7 918: Strong oriental music at 9 level at 13:57 963: CRI RR at 13:37 at 9 level 972: KK at 9 level 981: CNR1 at 8 1017: CRI KK at 8 1053, 1098, 1116 1134: ?KBS at 8. Lot's of splatter but otherwise strong at 13:43 1143: 8 level ?Taiwan Fisheries 1242: JOLF at 8 at 13:48 1251 1287: JOHR at 9 1332 1422: JORF at 7 at 13:52 1503: 6.5 with weak talk. Asian at 13:53 1512 1566: HLAZ barely a 7 1575: VOA a bit stronger at 8. There you have it. _______________________________________________ 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]
