Conditions this morning started out like a typical TP opening,but when
local sunrise neared there was a very pronounced enhancement above 1400 kHz.
The high point of the opening was on 1530, which sounded like a
graveyard channel, instead of just KFBK. DZME was the dominant station
from about 1450 to 1505. I also tried 1440 but there was no sign of JOWF
- CKJR was pounding in on day power.
Asian signals were noted on many high-band channels as listed below. I
plan to go back through the files again in hopes of finding more
Halloween treats, but this report should do for now. The high end TPs
have generally not been heard very well this season, aside from the
powerhouses like 1566 1575 1323 and 1422, so today's session was an
exciting one.
1395 UNID, 1501 nondescript music, 1502 deep-voiced male talk poor in
heavy splash
1413 JAPAN, JOIF, 1458, bits of male Japanese briefly surfacing
through the splatter
1422 JAPAN, JORF, 1458, fair w/female vocal song, then ads in
Japanese, chime on the hour
1458 UNID, 1456 decent sized carrier but weak audio and much splatter
, not enough to guess the language
1467 S KOREA? 1459 possibly HLKN w/talk, not //1602, long tone at toh
(the 3 short pips possibly buried in splatter), then male talk sounding
similar to the KBS1 newscasters, poor in CJVB splash
1485 UNID, 1500 weak carrier, haven't found any audio yet
1494 JAPAN/UNID, JOYL?/?, 1459 male talk, single chime or tone on the
hour, then talk sounding like 2 stations mixing fair-poor. Some of it
sounded like Japanese, so one of them was likely JOYL
1503 JAPAN, JOUK, 1449 man & woman in Japanese that seemed to
continue to 1500 then 3+1 pips, fair
1512 JAPAN, NHK, 1500 very poor time pips & a few syllables of female
talk in heavy KGA/KKXA splash
1530 PHILIPPINES, DZME, 1450 started to fade atop KFBK, then mostly
dominant in Tagalog. Probably the one with woman in Asian or island
accented English 1455-1500 but I need to double check the recording.
Signal peaked 1501 with man in Tagalog & definite DZME ID. By 1505 DZME
had faded and KFBK was once again atop the channel.
1530 CHINA, 1500, loud 5+1 time pips starting at 1500:, a few words
of Chinese by a woman shortly thereafter, otherwise buried under DZME.
1530 UNID, 3+1time pips 1500 mixing with others in the cacophony,
maybe one of the Japanese commercial stations?
1557 UNID, 1455 music sounded nonstop to 1500, 3+1 pips, all long
with the final one higher pitched, then Chinese (?) talk. Good carrier
poor audio. Taiwan?
1566 S KOREA, HLAZ, 1459 good with the usual Christian programming in
Chinese
1575 THAILAND, VOA 1458 fair-poor with program in SE Asian language
1593 CHINA, CNR1, 1500 Chinese talk, time pips, the usual ID, strong
signal but mercilessly hammered by KLFE-1590 splash
1602 JAPAN, NHK2, 1500, time pips & woman in Japanese poor in 1600 splash
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