Listened from 1600 to 1615 with the E1 and ALA100M dial was pretty light up but not what I would consider a spectacular morning - the DUs were somewhat subdued with JJ and KK stations dominating the lower bands.
>From memory (just starting to write stuff down now...) 531 - jumble with nothing dominating -- actual station on 530 but no idea who (Hawaiian TIS?) 540 - absence of Samoa at this hour (which rules the entire evening...) and a mix of CC soundind stuff 548 - just a big het against the local 550 558, 567 JJ 576 - thinks Russia by the content (279 was solid all evening from about 0700UTC on) 594 - noted the absence of JJ here and a muddle of other stuff 603 - KK sounding programming similar to what we hear on the WC Mainland 612 - noted absence of anything unusual in the wake of semi-local 620 639 - nothing dominating w/ grinding het fro EE (either AK or CAL on 640) 650 - KORL all the time 657 - Monster sized DPRK // 3220 666 - jumble 675 - murmurs what might have been Vietnam 690 - semi-local 693 - probably the JJ pushing its way past the QRM 702 - jumble 720 - semi-local 729 - jumble against 730-Vancouve 738- Tahiti dominating the evening drops down or shuts off to reveal Asian free-for-all mostly CC sounding 747 - Japan 756 - muddle 774 - mix of stuff struggling against 770 Island station 810 - Jumble 828 - noted lack of JJ 846 - Island something or other all evening 855 - channel of growls (KK most likely...) 891 - mix glossed up to around 963 and noted mix of CRI 972 - Korean mammoth signal only bested at this hour by 657 DPRK Above here a mix of EE and Asian stuff starts to duke it out. Will do a better upper band tomorrow morning. What is interesting is that there are so many 9 channels with a really gritty mix of stuff going on - and then there are the channels where one Asian station utterly rules - kind of like North American clear channels - most notable above 1100 khz and really noticeable above 1200. Examples: 1278, 1287, 1314, 1440 are channels with anchors on them... frequencies like 1548, 1557, 1566, 1575, 1593 are likely to have what you would expect to hear on them -- like Aus, Korea, Thailand and China -- but not always... 1575 today had Thailand with VOA type stuff on it -- but underneath that was EE programming with an Asian slant -- and they were close to being equal. And so it goes. More this evening. -- .......................................................................................... Colin Newell - Editor - CoffeeCrew DOT Com --- Victoria, British Columbia - Blog - Coffee DOT BC DOT CA DXer DOT CA and Bob Harris DOT Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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]
