Well, as I expected, there indeed are signs of life for TP signals early in the morning local. Rather than listen after dark last night, I awoke at 05:30 local (15:30 UTC) and monitored for an hour between 15:42 and 16:48 UTC off of my lanai. Noise was so-so, and presumably locally generated, but there was still a fair bit to hear, especially the lower half of the band. Facing south, I was expecting to hear some Australians, and they indeed were there, but so were a number of Asians as well. I was using my modified Eton e100 receiver with Audio Technica ANC7 noise canceling headphones that were discussed a few months back on Guy Atkin's Perseus Blog. Here's the list of what was heard. Perhaps one morning I'll wander down to the beach to see whether the noise will be less.
540: 2AP Samoa. Good to very good reception at 16:22 tune-in. Cookoo, Samoan talk, and hymn. Missed the s/on earlier. Not surprising as they were the last port of call before Hawaii on our trans-Pacific cruise a year ago, and 540 remained strong for days after our departure from Samoa. 549: CC sounding station at poor/fair reception early, then good reception on recheck at around 16:25. Also weaker cochannel heard at the latter time. 558: poor at around 16:25 603: Poor earlier, then poor/fair later with talk by YL in unknown language. 612: 4QR Brisbane at very good level at 15:43, but poor/fair at 16:26. 657: North Korea at good level early. 666: EZL music early. Prob JOBK Osaka with JJ talk as well. Good reception. 765: Lots of splatter hear, but talk underneath early. Not sure who. 783: very good reception early, but with deep fades. EZL music. CC talk. Not sure exactly who this would be. Faded down at the TOH, but I'm pretty sure there were some time pips at 16:00. 792: Good reception 4RN Brisbane early. 837: poor early 882: poor at 16:32 972: oriental station at fair level with talk at 16:33. ?HLCA 981: fair reception but with lots of splatter late 1089: CC at fair to good level with ad at 16:04 1098: strong OC late, but earlier could hear fast tempo music from the south at fair level. Not sure who. 1170: poor early, but fair level later with VOA Poro news in special English with ID at 16:41 (good level) 1242: fair to good level early ?JOLF Tokyo 1260: JOIR Sendai at good level with piano music then talk at 16:43 1323: poor level with weak talk (from NW) early. Still poor/fair late. 1332: weak talk early 1386: poor reception early with rapid fading. 1440: poor/occ fair heard best N/S 1494: poor talk at 16:19 1593: EZL music from NW at fair level at around 16:20. ?CNR1 Not so bad, considering how awful things have been generally from the WCNA and further east. Tomorrow's a big day for us with travel to the north shore of Kauai, so not sure whether I'll get to the radio dials or not. Until next time, 73s!.......Walt Salmaniw, Poipu, Kauai, HI (an incredibly bright Venus overhead at dawn, virtually as bright as the waning moon!) _______________________________________________ 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]
