[IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18
Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500 and maybe hear them sign-off at 1507 or so as they used to do on Sundays. Well, things hung in fairly well and there was plenty of audio from the stronger stations at 1500 and also at 1515... and the NHK2s did NOT sign off. Am I confused as to which day??? I thought that I read that they were signing off again? Anyway, I was so impressed with things still going at 45 minutes after dawn that I rechecked at 9:30AM PDT (1630 UTC) two hours after dawn. Yup, there were still hets all over the place and listenable JJ audio on 594 and 1242!!! I also had threshold audio on 774, 837, 945, 972 and 1143. Unfortunately, I had to leave the house right after that, so I don't know when the last audio faded... But WOW! As they say in the financial field past performance does not necessarily predict future results BUT, if I had an antenna that looked toward the TAs, I sure think that I'd plan to be at the dials at dark tonight. The main TP opening today seemed above average, but not excellent. The upper band was open as was the slightly more populated lower band and I image that I had about Nigel's 60-plus audios. The more interesting catches were the Amur River Russian on 810, along with but dominating North Korea and an unid CC on 927. 630 was KJNO, Juneau for a while and then CNR1 and North Korea took over. The most fun of the morning was some WILD Central Asian music on 1503. During the Asian season, JOUK, NHK1 Akita in northern Honshu just owns 1503. This music did not sound like normal NHK1 fare at all, it was louder than JOUK usually is, and it WAS NOT // TO NHK1 ON 531 AND 594! A quick glance at PAL showed a VOR 500 kW transmitter at Dushambe, Tajikistan and I was much excited! However, my house of cards came crashing down when the music finally ended and a Japanese lady closed out the program with a few judicious comments and went into the NHK 1400 Time Check and TOH routine! I had checked parallels twice in the ten minutes or so... and there was no question but what JOUK was running a local program. The reason that it sounded Central Asian is because it was probably early Japanese music. All of East, Central and South Asian early music was heavily influenced by Indian music which reached those areas as Buddhism spread out from Northern India between 500BC and 500AD. It is rare to hear that kind of music on NHK and the fact that it was a local program makes me wonder if they weren't covering a music festival or something. Akita is the northern headquarters for NHK, so JOUK is a staffed station, with local news, production staff, etc. Geez, I wish it had been Dushanbe!!! Well its only four or five hours until dark!!! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops ___ 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
Re: [IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18
John, the NHK2 sure were signing off last weekend when I was in Masset. Right at 15:00 with there local IDs and prolonged s/off procedure. Not sure what's happened since. Do you think they've had their clocks moved back for DST yet, or do they even do that in Japan? ...Walt On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM, John H. Bryant bjohnor...@rockisland.comwrote: Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500 and maybe hear them sign-off at 1507 or so as they used to do on Sundays. Well, things hung in fairly well and there was plenty of audio from the stronger stations at 1500 and also at 1515... and the NHK2s did NOT sign off. Am I confused as to which day??? I thought that I read that they were signing off again? -- Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD 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
Re: [IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18
John, I heard exactly the same kind of music last week on 531 and had a similar excitement wondering whether I had some exotic Indian or something, and this was before 14:00 (I think, or was it before 15;00?) when they rejoined the network feedWalt The most fun of the morning was some WILD Central Asian music on 1503. During the Asian season, JOUK, NHK1 Akita in northern Honshu just owns 1503. This music did not sound like normal NHK1 fare at all, it was louder than JOUK usually is, and it WAS NOT // TO NHK1 ON 531 AND 594! A quick glance at PAL showed a VOR 500 kW transmitter at Dushambe, Tajikistan and I was much excited! However, my house of cards came crashing down when the music finally ended and a Japanese lady closed out the program with a few judicious comments and went into the NHK 1400 Time Check and TOH routine! I had checked parallels twice in the ten minutes or so... and there was no question but what JOUK was running a local program. The reason that it sounded Central Asian is because it was probably early Japanese music. All of East, Central and South Asian early music was heavily influenced by Indian music which reached those areas as Buddhism spread out from Northern India between 500BC and 500AD. It is rare to hear that kind of music on NHK and the fact that it was a local program makes me wonder if they weren't covering a music festival or something. Akita is the northern headquarters for NHK, so JOUK is a staffed station, with local news, production staff, etc. Geez, I wish it had been Dushanbe!!! Well its only four or five hours until dark!!! John Bryant Orcas Island, WA, USA Winradio G313e and various Ultralights Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops ___ 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 -- Walter (Volodya) Salmaniw, MD 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
Re: [IRCA] Ionospheric Viagra + Orcas Isl. TPs Oct 18
Nick had reported hearing NHK2 s/off at 1500 in late September. I subsequently found the NHK2 schedule on their website, and confirmed that they are now signing off every night at 1500. That's good news as the season progresses, since it will make 693 747 774 828 873 and others a bit clearer for other stuff. I'm not sure how long this has been the case. Bruce Walter Salmaniw wrote: John, the NHK2 sure were signing off last weekend when I was in Masset. Right at 15:00 with there local IDs and prolonged s/off procedure. Not sure what's happened since. Do you think they've had their clocks moved back for DST yet, or do they even do that in Japan? ...Walt On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:16 PM, John H. Bryant bjohnor...@rockisland.comwrote: Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500 and maybe hear them sign-off at 1507 or so as they used to do on Sundays. Well, things hung in fairly well and there was plenty of audio from the stronger stations at 1500 and also at 1515... and the NHK2s did NOT sign off. Am I confused as to which day??? I thought that I read that they were signing off again? ___ 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
