Hello All, It seems like a West Coast location paid off this morning, considering the TP-DXing reports from Richard, Nigel and Bill. Asian signals were quite healthy here this morning, with the general conditions fairly close to what Bruce reported (considering the typical propagation twists between us). The mysterious 639-CNR1 co-channel was back this morning, playing long-set instrumental music broken up by a monotone-voice speaker in apparent Korean (not // 594). The speaker's voice is distinctive because of an unpleasant nasal tone, and stands out from CNR1's pleasant-voiced YL very clearly. My guess is that this is the 50 kw KBS3 station from Korea, but there is no parallel to check for confirmation. Besides this the regular low-band Asians were vibrant, with 558-HLQH (// 603) having its best morning so far this season. 729 had a decent carrier again around 1345, but there was too much CHMJ to determine the identity (Jiangxi, China or JOCK). 936-Anhui had a very good signal with music around 1411, and there were interesting UnID's on 1017 (again) and 1107. Considering the mediocre results of the past few days, this morning's session was a major improvement. The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick), inductively coupled to 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the frozen back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver. 558 HLQH Daegu, S. Korea Fair-good with Korean vocal music and brief Korean speech at 1357 (// 603) _http://www.mediafire.com/?yvdc3l8me4ytu92_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?yvdc3l8me4ytu92) 585 JOPG Kushiro, Japan Fair Japanese talk at 1338; in and out 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Strong Japanese conversation at 1339 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Good w/ KBS2 music // 558, 1358 639 CNR1 China Synchros Fair-good at 1416 with male-female Chinese speech; trace of co-channel _http://www.mediafire.com/?cbgdc732bbz0bl9_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?cbgdc732bbz0bl9) 639 UnID Nasal-sounding speech (apparent Korean) at poor-fair level at 1418 (the beginning of the MP3), giving way to CNR1's YL in Chinese at end (headphones recommended) _http://www.mediafire.com/?edno6fj5rumjjsj_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?edno6fj5rumjjsj) 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Good Chinese speech at 1340 657 Pyongyang BS, N. Korea Normally strident female unusually well-mannered at 1342 _http://www.mediafire.com/?md9hge6hr1eiwad_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?md9hge6hr1eiwad) 666 JOBK Osaka, Japan Good Japanese interview program 1353 675 VOV Hanoi, Vietnam Poor VV speech at 1348, but first time heard in about a week 729 UnID Fair audio at 1345, but too much CHMJ to decipher 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Good Chinese speech around 1420 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Good Japanese talk at 1403 w/slop 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Decent signal but buried in KTTH splatter 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Good strength with faint CC QRM, 1350 936 Anhui, China (presumed) Strong music momentarily around 1411, but didn't stick around for long 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Fair-good Korean speech around 1409, but never reaching Bruce's huge signal here 1017 UnID Another mix of two TP's this morning, one in KK 1405 1035 CNR1 Fair-good Chinese speech in and out around 1337 1044 CRI Jiangsu, China Good Japanese external program 1354 1053 Korean Jammer Vibrant this morning over UnID CC, 1334 1107 UnID Chinese-sounding speech in 1110 splatter late at 1422 1134 TP-Mix Snarl of JOQR and KBS, both at vibrant strength 1415 1377 CNR1 China Fair-good Chinese speech at 1336 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Good Japanese religious program 1332 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Threshold audio around 1333 For those Ultralight DXers (or any others) trying to receive their first Chinese TP, this CNR1 "interval music" (from 639 kHz this morning at 1353) provides a good ID clue. It is played frequently on all China National Radio 1 "big gun" frequencies (639, 756, 1035, 1377, etc.) _http://www.mediafire.com/?g26y86b08gizfig_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?g26y86b08gizfig) . 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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