After Colin's amazing report, I was wondering what was wrong with my antenna. For some reason, splash was fairly bad on the west Flag which is what I was using before I got out of bed, so most of what he was reporting simply wasn't making it here.
However, once I'd switched over to the north Flag, things got better, plus there's a boost here around 1425UT, so I concentrated instead on the 1415-1500UT time period. As mentioned, 1500UT wasn't the end of the opening, and in fact, HLAZ made an appearance as late as 1647UT with Russian talk, which is nearly two hours after local sunrise here. As usual, there were probably many fades up missed. And, maybe some of my Chinese were as loud as Gary's, after all. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 558 HLQH ballad //603 1433UT 567 JOIK man in Japanese 1427UT 594 JOAK woman in Japanese over man in Chinese? 1436UT; however, many times this was also nearly inaudible this morning 603 HLSA woman in Korean //558 1427UT 639 CNR1 echoing woman in Chinese //1251, 1427UT 747 JOIB woman in Japanese 1449UT 756 CNR1 man in Chinese, echoey and slightly offset from 639 1426UT 774 JOUB woman in Japanese 1358UT; heard at similar strength at 1531UT 828 JOBB English lessons 1419UT 918 man in Chinese 1436UT, then became echoey; assumed Shandong 945 unID instrumental music of some sort, well over CNR1 1426UT, but the latter soon took over 945 CNR1 man and woman in Chinese //639 1427UT, taking over from above unID 972 HLCA woman in Korean,1418UT, something else underneath also; still had a pretty good signal at 1609UT, but that was after a fade up. Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 603 woman in Chinese 1427UT overtaking HLSA 612 JOLK two men talking //594 1425UT 657 N. Korea brief peak past splash with operatic singing //855 1429UT 855 N. Korea female operatic singing //657 1429UT 855 CNR2 woman talking //1116 1430UT 873 JOGB English lessons 1422UT 954 unID pop music 1434UT over weaker man in Japanese 954 JOKR man in Japanese 1440UT 963 CRI man in Russian 1436UT 1242 JOLF man in Japanese 1437UT 1287 JOHR two men in Japanese 1434UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese 1424UT; still fading up to man in Russian at 1647UT 1575 VoA likely, woman in SE Asian language 1428UT, couldn't snag ID's on hour or half hour; also sounded like someone withpop music at one point earlier not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 531 JOQG woman //531 1422UT 585 JOPG man //594 1429UT 621 woman in Chinese, very echoey 1433UT 702 woman in Chinese after rock music 1437UT; also NHK2, woman talking, //774 711 HLKA man in Korean //864 1432UT 720 N. Korea woman singing //819 1425UT 738 Taiwan Fisheries woman in Chinese 1426UT. and who knows what underneath 819 N. Korea woman singing, orchestral music 1426UT 864 HLKR man talking 1433UT; //711 945 NHK1 man //594 1422UT 1017 CRI pop music, woman in Korean 1434UT 1044 CRI woman in Japanese during quiet patch in 1040 splat 1442UT 1116 CNR2 woman in Chinese 1430UT //855 1323 CRI man in Russian //963 1431UT 1503 JOUK man //594 1428UT 1593 CNR1 woman in Chinese //945 but offset by more than a secodn 1448UT 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) 585 orchestral music not //594, 1424UT; on north Flag, so not DU 675 mostly a bubbly mess. NHK1 man talking //594 1425UT; male vocal under might have been Vietnam 1426UT 720 woman in Chinese? fading up to equal KFIR fading down 1430UT; not N. Korea at this point 783 man in Chinese type mumbling 1423-5UT; so luck in tracking any sort of parallel 846 mess of audio on north Flag, so...Asian, but who knows who 873 N. Korea woman singing //819 1426UT 900 man talking, Chinese intonation, echoey,not //621 1433UT 936 big carrier, weak audio, woman in possible Chinese, 1419UT, maybe someone underneath also 963 NHK1 music //594 1434U 981 CNR1 woman talking, with echo //639 1420UT 999 man talking, Chinese sort of way 1424UT 1008 woman talking Chinese intonation 1457UT 1017 JOLB woman //774 1445UT 1035 CNR1 woman talking //639, but somewhat offset 1438UT 1089 JOHB woman //774 1446UT o/u woman talking, Chinese intonation 1098 CNR1 man //639 1422UT 1134 man in possible Korean, instrumental music 1434UT; unfortunately north Flag hears Vancouver really well = 1130 splash 1143 Taiwan Fisheries woman //738 1426UT 1179 two stations, one a man with Chinese intonation 1431UT 1251 CNR1 woman //639 1427UT 1278 woman in Chinese, 1445UT 1305 two stations both sounding Chinese; who knows 1314 woman talking, Japanese intonation 1428UT 1377 CNR1 man talking //639 1447UT, back at 1521UT also 1386 ballad 1424UT not //NHK2, but moments later woman //774 for NHK2 Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 765 891 909 1053 1062 1107 1206 1215 1269 1341 1359 1422 1458 seemed to be Asian; nothing much 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]
