Just like Saturday morning, Monday started out with a bang and just
about never slowed down. The bang at the start was finding audio on
549. Thanks to 25/2.5 kW KARI in Blaine, WA (20 saltwater miles from
me to my North) on 550 kHz., I don't think that that I've ever heard
audio here on 549... and rarely at Grayland 150 miles or so farther
from Blaine. The only thing that I have QSLed on 549 is a NZ Radio
Rhema station from 5 years ago Anyway, there was sure enough audio
on 549 and it elbowed itself strong enough that I not only IDed it as
Russian, but heard it on my Slider E100 (with the Wellbrook Array
attached.) It was one or more of the Mayak Synchros... there are a
bunch in the east, with the three most likely totalling 1.15
MW! this was at 1310, 90 minutes before dawn. As I went up the dial,
the entire lowed band was Full of Audio! There were only about four
channels below 1000 that did not produce at least threshold and those
had hets. WOW! Counting the whole morning, I had Russian on 549, 576,
648, maybe 720 and 810 (!!!). I think that the 810 was probably
Primorskoe Radio running local programming, after they finished up
carrying Radio Rossii at or just after 1400. This was very informal
chatter by a man and a couple of women and was not // to either Mayak
or Rossii. KGO is the 500 pound gorilla at Grayland and only slightly
attenuated here, so I really feel good about that one.
For the second or third time, I had CC after 1400 on 720 over the
vestiges of KDWN in NV. This is almost certainly CNR2, but I didn't
get it paralleled to 918 in the rush of things.
765 seemed North Korean, but there was quite an echo for a while and
there is only one transmitter ??819 listed. 819 was so distorted
that no real audio was getting through, so that is another mystery.
837, the Chinese was in around dawn very well. Once again at the 1500
TOH, it sounded very CNR and there were several mentions of Taiwan in
the news that followed. I'm "morally certain" that this is the new
station in Fujian Province that broadcasts to Taiwan, but I've yet to
send recordings to Gary (today!)
I listened to 909 for quite a while; it was in CC and is almost
certainly Tianjin, the port city for Beijing. However, it was down at
TOH 1400 and 1500 both !!!
Some of the Koreans, particularly the North Koreans, were very
strong, as were the JJ Big Guns early.... dropping down later.
I think that there was another Chinese network in underneath Big Gun
CNR1 on 945 at and after dawn. There was (I'm almost sure) CC talk
programming on with quite an echo, well beneath CNR1. PAL lists a
three-station network in central China called Chutian Satellite BS in
Hubei Province. They were too low to really comprehend, even for a
Chinese-speaker, but I did not see at the time that they all relay
1179, which was in, in CC!
I'll tell ya, this morning and Saturday morning are a real argument
for a Perseus or other broadband recording SDR.... Though I continue
to look at the ieda of hours of recordings to go through with raw horror.
Gee, these mornings are just wonderful!
John B.
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