Certainly you didn't have 738 and 1143 in parallel this morning by
the sound of your recordings Gary. But this conundrum put me on
the investigative path. First of all, there appears to be a
webstream (just one, though the top of the referring site cites 738
and 1143): mms://210.69.31.107:8080 referenced from
http://www.frs.gov.tw/ so we can check in future perhaps.
Second of all....they have an
archive....http://www.frs.gov.tw/newweb/live.asp so we should be able
to hear what we were all listening to this morning...OK, Taiwan is
UTC+8, and you heard it at 1338UT....so 21:38 Taiwan time. I
downloaded the 21:20-22:00 realplayer file for 21 Sept
(slow...). 18 minutes in is music, nothing like either of your
recordings. The file ends with time pips, so it at least it ends on
the hour, but maybe the hour is wrong, or the day?
Now I had a little audio on 1143 after 1400UT, very faint but DXer
friendly, a sound of a siren and a man yelling a few syllables,
practically a DX test. The 22:00 file on 21 September starts with a
siren and a man bellowing followed a short while later with a woman
talking, which I also hear as my recording fades up a bit.
So....I heard the Taiwan Fisheries station on 1143 I think, but Gary,
I'm quite puzzled now as to what you were hearing.
At least we have some more tools in the DX toolbox!
best wishes,
Nick
At 01:51 22-09-13, you wrote:
Hi Chuck, Nick, Michael and all,
My fair-level 1143 kHz Chinese language station (with a female CC
monolog going on at 1138) was assumed to be BEL3 in Taiwan,
primarily because of the station's 100 kW transmitter, the huge
signal of 738-Taiwan at the time, and the fact that nothing is
listed in the Grayland Master Log for Mainland China on the
frequency. I suppose that a Mainland Chinese station could have come
up out of the blue to dominate the frequency with no trace of BEL3,
but it seems unlikely to me (not impossible, though).
The 1143-Chinese recording linked below wrapped up at 1338, and the
738 kHz parallel check recording linked after it was switched on
within a couple of seconds (after FSL tuning to 738). Unless there
was a sudden change of programming within a couple of seconds (or
unless the 1143 Chinese was actually a mystery Mainland station),
the evidence would indicate that the two stations were not running
parallel programming.
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/r2520o5h9e51j7x/1143-BEL3-1338z092113PL380.MP3
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/33ddlsx473lardz/738-BEL2-1338z092113PL380.MP3
Of course, if I am proven wrong, I will be happy to invite you all
to the best restaurant in Grayland (knowing full well that almost
all of you will decline the offer).
73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck <[email protected]>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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Sent: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 2:36 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TP Lions Bay BC 21 Sep 2013
Gary -
738 has the same program as 1143 and 1593 unless something changed very
very recently.
BEL2 and BEL3 are just call letters rather than networks.
Got a recording? Maybe there is a hot-off-the-presses change?
Chuck
On 9/21/2013 1:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Michael, Nick and All,
>
> At the exact time that Michael reported his 738 kHz TP (1328) I had a huge
signal from 738-BEL2 in Taiwan this morning, as well as a fair-level Mainland
Chinese co-channel mixing with it at times. The signal from
738-Taiwan was at a
monster level (one of the strongest it has ever managed here), so I
would guess
that Michael also was receiving it.
>
> I also had Michael's 1143-Taiwan signal in at a fair level this morning at
1339, when he reported it. The programming on 1143-Taiwan (female CC monolog)
didn't match that on 738-Taiwan (male CC hosted call-in talk program) at that
moment, though. The 2013 WRTH indicates that 738-Taiwan has a BEL2 program,
while 1143-Taiwan has a BEL3 program, so I guess that was
confirmation that the
parallel doesn't work.
>
> It was a wild sunrise session here this morning, and I'm still
going over the
TP recordings to sort out what happened. Thanks for your report, Michael, and
it's great to have you in our TP-chasing group!
>
> 73, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
>
>
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