Hello All, This morning's Asian signals ranged from comatose (at 1300) to fair (around 1420), with some moderately good "big gun" TP audio during brief moments. The first band check at 1300 was miserable indeed, with even all the Asian carriers way down in the noise (this was probably the same situation that Bill noted). The comatose band gave every impression of being down for the count, although around 1330 the dead carriers started springing to life, and before 1400 a few "big guns" like 747 and 774 were producing fair audio through the domestic splatter. The situation continued to gradually improve until around 1420, when 738-BEL2 produced enough fair Chinese audio for a "soft mute" test of the new Tecsun PL-606 Ultralight radio model (more later). The second-tier TP's never really got out of the gate this morning, though, and the usual Chinese overachievers like 936-Anhui and 1377-CNR1 were silent. Several Asian powerhouses like 648-VOR and 972-HLCA were decent around 1430, though, and 657-Pyongyang got in a few weak Korean tirades before the band collapsed around 1445. In general the morning's session was lackluster, but certainly much better than its prognosis at 1300. The following were heard on a C.Crane SWP Slider model (7.5" loopstick) and a new Tecsun PL-606 stock model, inductively coupled to a 9' sided PVC tuned passive loop (in the cold back yard). A modified ICF-2010 (30" loopstick) was used as an SSB spotting receiver: 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan Fair-good Japanese talk program 1412 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea (presumed) Threshold music 1417 648 VOR Razdolnoye, Russia Fair-good JJ audio late at 1430 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Fair male-female Chinese speech at 1418 _http://www.mediafire.com/?a1vlskgi1aeun4n_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?a1vlskgi1aeun4n) 747 JOIB Sapporo, Japan Fair Radio English conversation study program at 1348 _http://www.mediafire.com/?s7kgh4qhqtdxx1o_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?s7kgh4qhqtdxx1o) 774 JOUB Akita, Japan Fair Radio Chinese program in bad KTTH splatter around 1416 828 JOBB Osaka, Japan Fair-good Radio Chinese around 1407 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea Fair-good Korean speech at 1410 1134 KBS3 Hwaseong, S. Korea Poor-fair Korean in splatter 1355 1566 HLAZ Jeju, S. Korea Fair-good Japanese religious pgm 1342 1575 VOA Ban Rassom, Thailand Poor-fair Asiatic language 1414 For those interested in the new Tecsun PL-606 (the newest 1 kHz DSP Ultralight model), a "soft mute" test was run on the fair signal from 738-BEL2 (Taiwan, in Chinese) at 1420 this morning. The new PL-606 was inductively coupled to the 9' PVC loop, and a recording was made on 738 kHz for the first 20 seconds, and then on 737 kHz (1 kHz farther from the 740-KCBS splatter) for the next 21 seconds. _http://www.mediafire.com/?p8kkulbnnpdhp2s_ (http://www.mediafire.com/?p8kkulbnnpdhp2s) Although the KCBS splatter and 2 kHz heterodyne disappeared on 737, so did much of Taiwan's signal, unfortunately. In this respect the new Tecsun PL-606 may resemble its PL-310 sibling, more than the reduced-soft-mute PL-380 model. Further tests are planned later today on the highly sensitive new radio, the most compact 1 kHz DSP Ultralight on the market. 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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