Listened from 1310 until around 13:50 when some T-Storms started popping up within 100 miles or so.
What was fascinating (and this was likely coincidental) was while watching the NHP fish barrel and hearing a couple of regional lightning crashes - the "pattern" on the FB took an almost instant dive. Lightning, sprites, ionosphere; could be a connection I guess. *567 Khz* 1317Z NHK1 JOIK Hokkaido network programming (using as one of my parallel spotters...) fr-gd *594 Khz* 1318Z NHK1 JOAK Tokyo - solid // to 567 with network programming - fr. gd. *612 khz* 1350Z 4QR Brisbane - pretty typical English programming but NOT exactly parallel to ABC 612 online - live stream *621 khz* 1351Z 3RN *(t)* Melbourne - very *VERY* tentative with similar sounding English programming in the limited LSR boost *675 khz* 1319Z UNID - fairly clearly English programming in the mud and splash. *747 Khz* 1322Z NHK2 - JOIB - Sapporo, Hokkaido - Language lessons not near as good as 774 *774 Khz* 1322Z NHK2 - JOUB - Akita - the powerhouse - also useful for spotting other NHK2 parallels - it;s always there. *828 Khz* 1323Z NHK2 - JOBB - Osaka - Typical Japanese programming - gd. *873 Khz* 1324Z NHK2 - JOAB - Kumamoto - easy and crisp // to 774 JOUB Akita (Thank you dual VFO's on Drake R8!) *891 Khz* 1325Z NHK1 - JOHK - Sendai, Miyagi - crisp parallel to 594 Khz with around a 5-10ms echo *909 Khz* 1343Z NHK2 - JOCB - Nagoya, Aichi - easy parallel to 774 Khz *918 Khz* 1342Z UNID X 2 - 2 stations at equal levels around 2-3 hz apart duking it out. *963 Khz* 1329Z CRI China (600kw) - Russian at pretty decent levels - as shown in highlight reel *972 Khz* 1331Z KBS HLCA - Korean at "domestic overwhelming" levels - " " " " " *1008 Khz* 1333Z UNID - Japanese in clearly with independent programming *1017 Khz* 1334Z - CNR - China assume the pretty darn clear Korean programming - on attached youtube video) *1053 Khz* 1337Z - Korea S. - Jammer in pretty solid - no other programming or competitors noted this AM *1107 Khz* 1338Z - UNID - Japanese sounding patter by OM - pr.fr. *1242 Khz* 1344Z - JOLF (t) Tokyo - assuming the hopped up dialog between grown man and teenage girl announcers. fr. *1287 Khz* 1345Z - JOHR (t) Hokkaido - assuming the commercial sounding Japanese language talking *1566 Khz* 1352Z - HLAZ - Korea - noted almost continually through the session - although this was not much of an upper band session - Did not note any oddities or jamming as Gary described - but was not looking for or expecting anything. Notable absent this AM - 1575 Khz - that said, there were good hets on some of the X-Band channels -- and I have yet to hear anything much above 1611 Khz RECEIVERS - Drake R8 // AOR 7030+ // DX150B // NHP Fish Barrel spotter ANTENNAS - W/NW Flag + FLG100 (Wellbrook head) + my professionally made VACTROL termination controllers - https://youtu.be/-5yYHJFDJKA -- Good listening! -- Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - 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
