Hi Nick, <<< The big news today was a worthwhile post sunrise enhancement. Previous to sunrise around 1530UT conditions had gotten quite anemic, then signals popped up that had not been heard before . As Gary noted, overall signal strength had been better earlier, in some cased, much earlier. My monitoring is from an hour before sunrise, so I might have missed some of those. >>>
Starting your monitoring about an hour before sunrise in a comfortable, heated house is the smart way to go. You may miss some unusual DX during the wee hours of the morning, but you won't be caught in a three hour endurance contest in subfreezing back yard cold wondering if some S9 Asian signals at 1230 will turn into S9+ signals at 1500. Gary > On February 12, 2018 at 9:42 PM Nick Hall-Patch <n...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > The big news today was a worthwhile post sunrise enhancement. Previous to > sunrise around 1530UT conditions had gotten quite anemic, then signals popped > up that had not been heard before . As Gary noted, overall signal strength > had been better earlier, in some cased, much earlier. My monitoring is from > an hour before sunrise, so I might have missed some of those. > > One thing this morning had in common with other mornings was the erratic > nature of the signals; really only readable for tens of seconds in some > cases. Blind chance led to hearing CNR1 on 756 today; it was only audible at > the time I logged it so far as I can tell; it just wasn't there in other > parts of the recording. > > > > > pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at > least briefly): > > > 1566 HLAZ woman in Chinese, then unusual (for HLAZ) oriental music 1538UT > (although weaker an hour later, this still peaked with a man in Russian then) > > > > > Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a > native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): > > 774 JOUB English lessons 1432UT; this lasted long enough for a barely audible > s/off at 1600UT today > 828 JOBB English lessons 1431UT > 972 HLCA woman in Korean 1437UT > 1287 JOHR man in Japanese 1600UT, fading up quickly after a weak pip on the > hour, then fading back down again. Was on and off audible until after 1630UT > today. > > > > > not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could > be understood by a native speaker: > > 567 JOIK man announcing sporting event in Japanese 1443UT, could have been > //594 but that was mostly quite weak today > 639 CNR1 low and high pips on the half hour 1430UT, time check and news > 747 JOIB English lessons 1438UT > 1098 CNR1 man in Chinese 1549-50UT, strongest overseas signal on band at this > point. ID'd earlier at similar strength with //945 1530UT > > > > 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) > > 594 JOAK assumed at various times, as kept referring to it for parallels, and > not very happy with the signal level, mostly in the murk > 603 the daily mess of woman talking, likely Chinese, and low key music 1433UT > 693 JOAB man talking //774 1451UT > 756 CNR1 man and woman talking //639 1445UT > 945 CNR1 briefly strong enough to establish //1098 1530UT, man talking > 1089 CNR6 likely with distinctive classical music 1534UT; 6185 seemed > parallel but too weak to tell for sure > 1134 man mumbling 1517UT, Korean rather than Japanese seemed likely > 1224 JOJK slow piano music 1546-7UT, seemed //594 which was weak; double > checked a Japanese online SDR to establish NHK1 program for sure at that time > 1575 likely VoA, man mumbling in a SE Asian sort of way 1537UT. Yankee Doodle > seemed possible in the murk at both 1430 and at 1600UT. > > > Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged > by splatter) > 738 837 855 864 891 918 936 1053 1116 1206 1251 1278 1323 1359 1458 1503 1593 > seemed to be Asian; > 612 675 702 846 1017 seemed to be DU > > > > best wishes, > > Nick > > > > > > > > > Nick Hall-Patch > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
