As was reported elsewhere, Thursday morning showed significant
improvement from our first three days down in Grayland. With Guy's
new QDFA antenna working 100% finally, I'd expect some very nice
loggings when he finishes reviewing all of his Perseus recordings.
Since I still do things the old fashioned way, I can report fairly fully now...
I thought that things were improved, but still not excellent Thursday
morning. For some reason, China seemed to be coming in better than
usual, though kind of spottily. Not all of the regular CCs were at
their usual strength, yet all of my new stations ( I finally got
some) were CNR1 channels... hummmmm.
1170: 1305 UTC, had KPUG, the RKI Korean broadcaster AND CNR1
//5030 all together. I've probably heard this channel before, but I
have just recently started keeping a "heard not verified" list and
this is a new one there. I also heard this at TOH 1400, with the KPUG
call embedded in this UN meeting.
999: 1331UTC. I'm proudest of this reception. I've been
watching 999 all fall and it has always been in low level audio, with
a major hum spike (louder than the audio) on the low side at
998.90. I pretty-well have to be in LSB to dodge the vestigial
signal of semi-local KOMO on 1000, which means that the low side hum
pretty well precludes reception. Once before, I've been able to use
the incomparable notch filter on the Winradio 333 to clobber the hum
spike and recover some audio, even though remaining in LSB because of
KOMO. The previous time the audio was NHK1 synchros from one of two 1
kW. JJs. This time, the "real" signal was slightly stronger. I set
the notch to be 100 Hz wide and set it on 998.9 and was able to get
fairly decent audio from the 999 signal: it was two stations in
standard CC and one was CNR1 from Heihe, Manchuria. I think that this
is probably the most technically difficult TP reception that I've
ever made. The now always present spike on 998.9 is almost certainly
the big KCBS North Korean, though I've not heard any audio from that
signal this season.
1107: Not a logging - Gary, I listened here quite a bit and had
two stations: one playing music almost continually was the S.Korean
MBC station, I'm pretty certain. The other station there was a JJ synchro.
1134: I enjoyed another "UN meeting" at 1430 with Japan, South
Korea and my first reception of the CNR1 on 1134. PAL lists this as a
1.2 Megawatt tx in Golmud, Qinghai province, over toward northern
Tibet... the Chinese equivalent on North Dakota, but wedged between
NE Tibet and Mongolia. It is after sunset there, so maybe so??? A new
one for me, where ever it is.
1575: I've been watching 1575 for a while. There is often a
mid-strength spike on the low side (and no North Korean listed <g>).
I did not decipher that spike, but I did catch the CNR1 transmitter
in Jilin (Manchuria) doing well under VOA Thailand. Another
I should note that CNR1 is playing a lot of Chinese classical music,
often opera, after 1400. It is a real help in IDing //s, especially
if the signal you are watching is far underneath a dominant on that
frequency. Imagine a herd of cats inside a steel drum, with someone
hitting the drum with a ball bat. Sorry if that sounds culturally
insensitive. I was on a national delegation to China at the end of
the Cultural Revolution and had to attend 8 or 10 two-hour
performances (usually on the front row) AND PRETEND TO LIKE THEM.
Earplugs would have been excellent.
In any case, the Chinese opera is a great help in IDing //s of CNR1!!!
John Bryant
DXing from Grayland, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array
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