Morning session from 1315 until 1410 UTC Like Walter Salmaniw and Nick Hall-Patch advise: *"Never underestimate any mornings conditions - particularly after solar disturbances..."* Today was a good example of reaping the rewards of patience and the energy to wade through less than desirable conditions.
Ordering by frequency: *576* Khz AUS (T) ABC 2RN assuming the bouncy jazz music at 1347 UTC - by 1402 UTC this was // to 756 Khz *567* Khz JAPAN NHK1 JOIK Hokkaido - putting in a modest performance - 1340 UTC - fair to good *585* Khz AUS (T) Unknown station - // 576 Khz and often taking turns rising to fair levels - 1348 UTC // 576 - captured audio/video at 1400 UTC *YouTube Video* - https://youtu.be/Uuo59utVnAs *594* Khz JAPAN NHK1 JOAK Tokyo - fair to good w/ some unknown DU competition on channel (throughout session) *603* Khz Unknown (DU) at 1349 UTC when most of the DU action was taking a run, some English sounding content and conversation for a few minutes *612* Khz AUS ABC 4QR Brisbane - star of the morning gradually building around 1350 to some impressive peaks over the hour - still in when I shut down the station at 1410 UTC - 100% copy most of the time. *657* Khz AUS (T) - Unknown - absolutely not expecting or looking for anything here but Pyongyang at 1340 - clear // to 612 Khz *675 *Khz NZ (T) - assuming the National radio service at 1350 with clear English speaking YL *702* Khz JAPAN/AUS - NHK2 (various) Japanese // 774 Khz at 1319 and then 2BL (T) AUS took over by 1407 when that signal (ABC) became // to 612. *756* Khz AUS (t) - ABC - // to 576 Khz at 1402 UTC... which, I think, is possible (was jotting down notes and frequencies as they happened w/o any reference at hand... *774* Khz AUS/JAPAN - classic over the hour evenly matched battle royale between 3LO Melbourne and JOUB Akita - 1403 UTC *You Tube Video* - YouTube https://youtu.be/IOia4UHbwvk *1017 *Khz JAPAN - NHK2 Fukuoka - surprise appearance and all alone with JJ commentary at 1356 UTC *1179* Khz JAPAN (T) MBS Osaka - another unexpected Japanese station - alone with JJ patter 1354 UTC Other good (and more predictable) signals of the morning - 828 (JJ), 972 (Korea) 1053 (Korea-Jam) 1098 (O.C.) 1116 ABC Programming 1242 NHK Japan at 1332 UTC, Korea on 1566 Khz constantly and at good levels. RECEIVER - DRAKE R8 AOR 7030+ ANTENNA W/NW Flag E/NE FLAG *Remote termination controllers - Canadian made VACTROL dual-POT controls (Circuit boards from OSHPARK.com) details on DXer.ca* -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - 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]
