As illustrated earlier, today was a morning punctuated with occasional displays of plumage - but for for the most part, this bird had its head in the sand. Following Nick Hall-Patches "Fish Barrel" online live alert system, the deck was shuffled with every page refresh - and rarely did my findings agree with the Fish Barrel - that is to say, evidence of impressive signals on one channel were never realized by the time I arrived - conversely, impressive 2nd and 3rd tier curiosities would frequently emerge for a dozen seconds or so. This was prime SDR territory -- and me flying old school.
Listening period: 1320 UTC until 1402 UTC 594khz Japan - at times at seasonably medium to high signal levels with JJ talking - 1320 until 1350 603khz Various - hints of audio and a few carriers at different times yielding threshold intelligence 1330 567khz Japan - usual JJ talks - but did by no means match 594 in terms of raw strength 1322 702khz UNid - near audio on several passes but competing with CBC 690 splash 1323 747khz Japan - actual good levels holding own against co-channel noise 1331 774khz Japan - very good levels at times with NHK programming -- audible entire session 828Khz Japan - " " " " " " " " " " " " " " 891khz UNid - big signals later in the session but very little in the way of delivered intelligence - 1350 918Khz UNid - near audio at times - music and muted conversations - might have imagined Japanese talk but\ just not sure - 1350 954Khz Japan - Tokyo - primary second tier at good levels from to time particularly later in the sessions. 1347 972Khz Korea - audible pretty much the entire session with subdued Korean talk and music 1179khz UNid - frequent near audio on peaks battling it out with domestic - did not hang around 1143Khz UNid - up and down frequently in the session with music and muted "oriental" sounding talk - more Chinese leaning - and not Japanese from cadence 1242Khz UNidX2 - an interesting mix here at 1358 (maybe Nick can check his recording) - a very strident OM in something very different than Japan - which would be replaced within 10s or so with Japanese - my best guess would have been Vietnamese by the cadence, sharpness and tonality. 1566Khz - Korea- Arguably one of the poorest performance in weeks - with subdued sub-S9 signals on this nuclear upper band anchor. 1575Khz - Thailand - usual VOA stuff in Khmer/Viet sounding stuff - somewhat lighter in signal than 1566 Drake R8 + W/NW Flag Icom - R71A on a N/S 9 meter loop at around 12' above the ground. -- *Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada* _______________________________________________ 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]
