In honor (honour) of the phenomenal DXers across the border who compile exhaustive TP-DX reports daily while a slacker on this side of the line uses most of his free hobby time to tweak tiny little ferrite antennas into wicked ocean beach overachievers https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/h6xnzt3ms0r5pn7a5vh1hipgc4tonnlt
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly) : 594 JOAK Japanese news by man at 1403; trace of China underneath at times 603 HLSA Korean pop music //558 keeping a romping China in line for most (but not all) of the session 639 CNR1 Chinese Synchros Female speech at nuclear-powered level at 1438 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/q9k2gw16dzeg3j3p8q1rpxll5gqzvzbb 657 N. Korean martial music at 1325 during war with pesky Chinese co-channel 738 BEL2 Female Chinese speech //1143 also at a nuclear-powered level at 1425 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e26q6ucfw9ddp5e8vuo63c20g04f0pmw 747 JOIB Japanese male and female conversation //693 at various times after 1400 819 KCBS Huge strength with wacky music but barely making it through the local splatter around 1355 972 HLCA Rising up and down with S9+ peaks throughout sunrise enhancement Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise) : 603 China Battling HLSA all session long, but never quite able to put away the Korean. NHK1 also joined in at 1418 to make it a three ring circus https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4h7qqu5epigm77cqd4z5n6e75xeprnkv 621 UnID Monstrous heterodyne with Portland at 1325 but the pocket radio's DSP filtering just couldn't dig it out 756 CNR1 Loud mushy speech by Chinese man at 1413 sounding like muffled echoes from a train tunnel https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4ydz4nhc4tee15xpe16rqffkvxuexz0s 837 China Some Chinese music reached this level at times but not for long; no Japanese co-channel today 1017 CRI Very briefly with good peaks of Korean speech around 1408, but fizzled quick 1044 CRI The Japanese service tanked out early on after 1400 not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 783 China Definite Chinese speech by lady at 1418, but with none of Nick's Chinese opera. This was its best signal all week https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b8fgk2ng2v86h5k775gv0v2spv7zu4dp 936 China Some female Chinese speech discernable at 1422, but not for long 963 CRI Russian service in a definite skid this morning 1035 CNR1 Synchros never came anywhere close to their 756// That's all for now-- I have some antennas to work on :-) 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, close to BC) 7.5 inch loopstick CC Skywave Ultralight + 5 inch 'Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna (photo at link above) _______________________________________________ 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
