This morning seemed to be another step towards more normal November conditions. Domestics seemed quite splashy also, and along with the DX fading quite erratically made for some difficulty here.
Items of note were hearing the Chinese pips on 1530kHz at 1500UT, though I would have missed them if Bruce hadn't mentioned them, and hearing the portentous tones of a man intoning "Voice of America" on 720 at the same time. Fortunately, before getting too excited, I checked the hour before .... "Voice of America KFIR" ... Excitement over. I enjoyed Colin's report, but for the most part, didn't enjoy hearing most of what he reported. That's definitely a better listening location up there. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK 1429UT 657 N. Korea presumed with female chorus briefly peaking 1433UT. This can fade up pretty quickly (and down) 747 JOIB 1429UT 774 JOUB 1433UT 945 CNR1 short peak 1423UT //639 972 HLCA 1434UT, with someone underneath; still readable at peaks, 1630UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 558 HLQH, //HLSA 1435UT; Japanese underneath 567 JOIK //594 1428UT 603 HLSA //HLQH 1439UT 612 4QR assumed man and woman in DU English 1436UT 639 CNR1 1432UT //945 828 JOBB 1433UT man in Portuguese 828 JOBB 1424UT //774 837 1435UT, woman in Chinese after pop music; not //5925 or the CNR5 webstream 1017 Tonga assumed with island choral music 1434UT 1566 not sure; woman and man in Chinese 1500UT, but no mentions of FEBC; no possible // on 1053 not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 702 man in Chinese followed by male vocal 1358UT, not //639, as female vocalist there, 738 Chinese man talking 1427UT; no 1143 today 873 JOGB //774 1450UT 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) 621 woman talking, Chinese intonation 711 HLKA man //864 1445UT 756 CNR1 echoey //945 1448UT 819 N. Korea woman talking //2850 1450UT 864 HLKR, as 711 1323 man talking, Russian intonation 1430UT 1458 brief fade up 1451UT, man talking, couldn't really guess; Tagalog? 1530 CNR pips 1500UT under KFBK 1575 woman talking, possibly SE Asian languag 1424UT 1593 CNR1 pips and distinctive sounds of time check and into the news 1500UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 549 576 585 675 729 783 846 855 918 927 936 963 1008 1035 1053 1134 1143 1206 1215 1251 1305 1341 1377 1503 seemed to be Asian; 576 585 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]
