Hello All, The modest band reported by Colin suddenly came alive here around 1420, and several UnID TP mysteries that have continued for days were finally solved. Thanks to John and Chuck, (and a few snatches of live Korean this morning) the constant-music 1107 kHz station was finally identified as the 10 kw MBC station HLAV. This was a very tough one to ID, and without the help from John and Chuck (who mentioned that the station is never very strong, even at Grayland), it probably would have stayed UnID indefinitely. It had been rising above the noise level occasionally for four days straight, usually with western-type music. In another mystery, the weak signal on 1125 kHz suddenly became strong Mandarin Chinese conversational audio at 1423, indicating the identity as one of the two Chinese stations on the frequency. This was another weak mystery that had dragged on for days. Finally, during the same short TP surge around 1425, CNR1 in Mandarin Chinese joined the KBS station on 1134, with both of them about equal in strength. This was the first time to hear China on 1134 kHz here, which is usually dominated by KBS (and occasionally JOQR). So the morning was actually very productive here (on the 9' box loop), even though it sounded mediocre until around 1415. Even the weather cooperated-- the rain held off until 1440, when the TP-chasing fun next to the huge loop (in the back yard) was over :-) 73, Gary DeBock Spotting receiver: Modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) Main receiver: Modified C.Crane SWP (7.5" Slider loopstick + CFJ455K5 IF filter) 9' PVC-frame tuned passive loop (in the back yard) _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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