AFN 810 has been logged and QSL'd here, but not as common now. 648 Okinawa is easier. They used to boom into Seward AK on 1550 in the 60s. AFN Taiwan 1560 was common too.
Patrick On 12/24/16, Paul B. Walker, Jr. <walkerbroadcast...@gmail.com> wrote: > This 50,00 Watt AM Station from Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, Japan has quickly > become one of my favorite AM stations to log from here in the rural central > interior region of Alaska. > > Conditions on both AM and SW have been total crud for the last several > days. . Some days, even my super strong, steady dependable JOLF 1242 from > Tokyo has been weak. > > Eagle 810 rears it's head in the later morning hours. It's almost always > there, but fairly regularly its barely above the mush, but I can "Tell" > it's there. > > Fairly regularly the reception is well, Fair and sounds like this recording > on December 14th at 1853UTC/953AM AKST: > http://onairdj.com/AFNTheEagle810_12142016_953am.mp3 > > What's kind of interesting is when this signal is good, it never stays good > for long.. it'll pop above the mush for 30 seconds, 2 maybe 3 minutes > usually before fading into oblivion. The clip above from December 14th had > reception hanging around for over 20 minutes or more. > > However, on December 20th between 1915 and 1921UTC, I had some pretty good > reception for a little while. The signal was about as good as I've ever > heard them and included the tail end of a PSA, a station liner along with > two pop music songs. > > Here's two clips from December 20th: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwilUAN8Js > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-LKNUlTTA > > In that second clip, you can hear how quickly the signal turns to mush and > how mushy and messy it gets. > > It's easy to spot an AFN station because the majority of their few AM > signals that are left which play music are playing hit/pop/current music. > > At night, when I tune 810 I've never heard anything other then KGO San > Francisco. KGO is at least audible, sometimes poor, sometimes fair and not > very often, it's very good. > > Paul B. Walker, Jr. > Galena, Alaska > Grundig Sattelit 750 > DX Engineering HF PreAmp > 225 foot long wire > _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
