A step up again, with stronger and more varied signals, lots of detail to drill down into, and of course, didn't entirely. Have to leave some DX for next time. A first here was Korea on 1062, 8kHz below my barnburner of a local on 1070.
One big error in this morning's pre-report. It wasn't RNZ on 567....just JOIK sounding like RNZ in playing a jazz vibraphone number, and being parallel with 675, which, ahem, unusually, was also NHK1 at that time. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 567 JOIK jazz vibes number //675 (594 was in the shade just then) 1431UT, as mentioned above. Was at this strength a number of times this morning 594 JOAK woman in Japanese //891 1400UT 612 4QR man in DU English 1420UT 747 JOIB English lessons 1432UT 774 JOUB English lessons 1401UT 828 JOBB pips and beginning of English lessons 1400UT 972 HLCA pips, man in Korean 1400UT 1287 JOHR man in Japanese 1440UT (peaking at my local sunrise) 1566 HLAZ man in Chinese 1435UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 603 HLSA likely with power ballad 1430UT; sketchy signal on 558 seemed parallel 657 N. Korea, man in Korean 1412UT 666 JOGB woman talking //567 1408UT 702 NHK2 English lessons, more discussion about smartphones 1426UT 873 JOGB lessons //747 1424UT 891 5AN? woman talking to another woman on the phone, DU English 1409UT 945 CNR1 man in Chinese //1098 1409UT 963 CRI big orchestral fanfare, then into male ballad //1323 1429UT 1143 man talking Chinese 1416UT, no parallel; likely Taiwan 1575 VoA likely man in SE Asian language 1411UT; north Flag not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 531 JOQG woman talking //594 1428UT 558 HLQH male ballad 1409UT, //603 at 1410UT as 603 began to fade down under a Chinese onslaught. 612 JOLK mixing it up with 4QR 1415UT, man //594 675 NHK1, likely JOVK, woman and man talking //594 1428UT 693 JOAB English lessons 1410UT 738 2NR woman talking //612 1405UT 837 woman in Chinese at 1404UT CNR6? 891 JOHK man in Japanese 1400UT //594 909 JOCB man and woman talking //774 1420UT 918 man talking, Japanese intonation 1420UT 954 JOKR man and woman in Japanese 1411UT 981 CNR1 man in Chinese //945 1427UT 1017 CRI woman in Korean 1425UT 1098 CNR1 man talking //945 1409UT; north Flag 1134 KBS man talking Korean 1425UT, but soon faded to man in Japanese 1134 JOQR likely with man in Japanese 1426UT 1188 JOKP man talking //594 1411UT 1206 Yanbian likely with deep voiced male ballad 1408UT 1242 JOLF man in Japanese, interspersed with music 1423-4UT, then woman talking Burbles in the splatter and noise (if lucky, language might be guessed at by cadence of talk, or parallel established by changes in talk or music) 540 Chinese pips at 1400UT 585 JOPB woman talking //594 1424UT overcoming local buzz on the channel 621 man talking, Chinese intonation 1437UT 639 CNR1 female vocal, then man talking, Chinese intonation //945 and 1098, 1409UT 639 JOIP man and woman talking //594 1419UT 738 Taiwan Fisheries woman talking //1143, also a Chinese woman there as well, 1424UT 819 N. Korea likely with female operatic vocal 1407UT 864 a messy channel, but HLKR established, with man talking //1062 900 weak Chinese pips at 1400UT; Heilongjiang? 945 NHK1 man and woman talking //594 1420UT 1062 HLKQ man talking //864 1422UT 1098 a mess, two Chinese sounding stations with the stronger one not //945 1415UT 1323 CRI woman talking //963 1414UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 711 801 846 855 927 936 1008 1035 1044 1053 1089 1152 1179 1269 1314 1341 1368 1593 seemed to be Asian; 909 918 1017 1116 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC 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]
