Hello All, Because of the active sun it was a very dreary TP-DXing morning here, with one strange exception. Most of the Asiatic big guns failed to even manage weak carriers during sunrise enhancement, and 738-Tahiti's signal stayed at a modest carrier level. It seemed like the morning would be a total bust, but very late at 1355 a strong carrier on 693 kHz suddenly came up from the NW direction and reached a fair audio level (under the domestic splatter). Although this station's identity presumably should have been the 500 kW NHK2 big gun JOAB (in Tokyo), there was no propagation at all to Japan on the other frequencies at the time, and the male and female announcers on 693 seemed to be talking in fast Chinese (with the female announcer's voice seeming to match that of CNR1's commonly heard lady). The rapid-fire Chinese sure didn't sound at all like any of the NHK2 language lessons, but since there hasn't yet been any reception of China reported on 693 kHz (even at Grayland), I guess! the station will need to go down as another Chinese mystery here.
73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" MW loopstick Tecsun PL-380 + 8" Medium Wave FSL _______________________________________________ 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]
