Yes, it was nuts; I stand by this morning's assessment. Big signals from unusual stations like 711, 639 etc. Little signals from Lord knows what, but quite a lot of Chinese. The north Flag was really producing today.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 567 JOIK man in Japanese /594 1428UT 594 JOAK woman in Japanese, temperatures for various cities, Kagoshima 24 degrees etc. 1402UT 639 CNR1 1429UT man in Chinese, pips, time check, into news 747 JOIB English lessons 1405UT 774 JOUB English lessons 1402UT 819 N. Korea female operatic singing 1418UT 828 JOBB English lessons 1416UT 945 CNR1 man in Chinese //639 1424UT 972 HLCA man in Korean,1415UT; still quite readable 1511UT 1287 JOHR two men in Japanese, North Flag better, 1410UT, same as yesterday; still pretty readable 1500UT 1323 CRI woman in Russian //963, best at 1430UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1420UT; north Flag Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 603 HLSA woman in Korean //558 1406UT 666 JOBK woman in Japanese //594 1413UT 711 HLKA peaking with piano music after woman in Korean 1430UT; //864 837 Chinese female vocal 1410UT, not parallel later with 1116, so maybe not CNR5 864 HLKR man in Korean 1405UT 873 JOGB English lessons 1401UT 963 CRI woman in Russian //123 1430UT 1098 CNR1 man talking //945 1436UT, murky but strong 1206 Yanbian piano music after man in Korean 1410UT 1575 woman in SE Asian language 1432UT; 1593 CNR1 man in Chinese //945 1418UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 612 JOLK man //594 1429UT 657 N. Korea man in Korean //855 1415UT 702 woman in Chinese 1411UT 738 woman in Korean 1402UT, no parallels, assume HLKG 738 Taiwan Fisheries piano music //1143 1419UT 855 N. Korea man //657 1414UT 945 unID oboe? music when CNR1 faded down 1426UT; a few notes seemed //936 which seems unlikely 954 JOKR man in Japanese 1426UT but....954 some sort of operatic orchestral music fighting with JOKR 1427UT 981 CNR1 woman //945 1425UT 1044 CRI man in Japanese 1413UT 1116 man in Chinese 1424UT couldn't find any parallels in the recording 1188 JOKP man //594 1408UT 1368 woman in Chinese 1426UT, no idea 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) 531 JOGB woman talking //594 1409UT 585 a mess, man talking Chinese? was dominant 1413UT 621 operatic singing, likely N. Korea, no parallels1429UT 720 N. Korea female operatic singing //855 1425UT; woman in Chinese? there also 756 CNR1 man talking //639 1418UT 873 orchestral music u/JOGB, but nothing parallel. N. Korea? 1401UT 891 JOHK man talking 1408UT //594; didn't amount to much today 918 woman talking sounded more Japanese than Chinese 1435UT 936 brief bit of music 1412UT; a big carrier without much modulation 1017 woman talking, Korean intonation , likely CRI 1405UT 1089 man talking Chinese intonation 1417UT 1143 Taiwan Fisheries jolly piano music //738 1419UT 1224 woman singing not //594 1436UT 1251 CNR1 man in Chinese //639 1420UT 1269 mix of stations, one sounding like Chinese 1432UT 1305 man talking Chinese intonation 1412UT 1377 CNR1 woman talking //1593 1429UT 1458 man and woman talking, no idea, and couldn't guess at language 1431UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 801 846 1008 1026 1035 1053 1107 1125 1134 1179 1197 1215 1242 1296 1314 1341 1359 1386 1503 seemed to be Asian; nothing seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC Canada _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com 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: irca@hard-core-dx.com