Hello All,
The Asian TP's this morning may have been slightly down from yesterday's
session in strength and variety, but there were still some interesting signals.
In this respect the situation here was a lot closer to Nick's version than
Bruce's dreary report.
This month's overachiever 603-HLSA was the star of the morning here, managing
once again to exceed its best-ever signals (and peg the PL-380 S/N display)
with a huge Korean talk fade-in around 1328 (interestingly, at exactly the same
time that Nick reported it with "not so reasonable audio," although I had
nothing like Nick's 603 jammer showing up). The Japanese big guns (594, 747,
774 and 828) seemed to drop off in audio somewhat this morning, but the Korean
big guns on 972 and 1053 were as vibrant as ever. Some interesting signals from
China showed up on the middle band, with 1017-CRI reaching good audio with
Chinese music during its Korean service at 1335, and 1035-CNR1 doing the same
with Chinese male talk at 1338. 657-Pyongyang was irritatingly strong with its
ancient music around 1340, and 648-VOR came out of the noise with fair Chinese
speech (in CISL splatter) at 1343. The Chinese station that was received on
1143 yesterday (the primary topic of conversation) unfortu!
nately remained at a carrier level here this morning, although 738-BEL2 had
some moments of fairly good audio around 1320.
The mystery of the morning was apparent Korean speech and a "Moon River" song
broadcast on 1044 kHz at 1339, all alone with no apparent co-channel. The 10 kW
KBS station on 1044 has been heard here before, but never without the CRI
co-channel mixing in. With 711 kHz wiped out by 710-KIRO, there is no easy KBS1
parallel audible in the Seattle area. On the other hand, it seems unlikely that
1044-CRI would play "Moon River" in a foreign service broadcast to Japan (when
it typically plays Chinese music). Finally, I also heard (and recorded) the
same weird music practice on 972-HLCA that Nick reported at 1336 In summary,
the morning was fairly interesting, but not quite up to yesterday's exciting
level.
603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Huge signal with Korean talk at
1328, once again exceeding its best-ever signal level here
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/1k2fup65qff7c1j/603-HLSA-1328z092213PL380.MP3
972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Another huge signal from Korea with
male music teacher giving singing practice to female student
at 1335; best TP signal of the morning here
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/00q2ec82c1d5ods/972-HLCA-1325z092213PL380.MP3
1044 KBS? Mystery signal at 1339-- apparent Korean speech followed
by "Moon River" song at fair-good level, but no CRI co-channel
audible on the frequency
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/1ldlbdzss2dtxpw/1044-UnID-TP-1339z092213PL380.MP3
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight +
12" Medium Wave FSL antenna
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