Hello All,
Asian signals took a major dive this morning compared to yesterday, with even
several of the big guns struggling to reach decent audio. At 1300 the band
sounded completely hopeless, but as daylight approached a few die-hard Asians
showed up with fair to good audio. The general lack of good TP signals (and
good variety) this morning makes it fairly easy to test out this reporting
format commonly used by a distinguished TP-DXer north of the border (who
managed to post his dreary report earlier than me this morning):
Pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,
at least briefly):
747 JOIB Unusual fade in at 1345UT that shot up from the noise level
to a potent strength, then quickly crashed
Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it
understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise):
594 JOAK Japanese conversation at 1338UT
603 HLSA Korean male speech and female vocal music by this
overachieving second-tier Asian at 1322UT
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/hwrlk7z071a3cs7/603-HLSA-1325z092413PL380.MP3
828 JOBB Japanese weather report at 1331UT
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/clg45y8vo67uatd/828-JOBB-1331z092413PL380.MP3
972 HLCA Korean female-male conversation at 1340UT
Not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or
noise could be understood by a native speaker:
657 Pyongyang Female vocal music late at 1348UT
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4qjazohgqicq7ek/657-Pyongyang-1347z092413PL380.MP3
738 BEL2 Weak Chinese OM speech at 1315UT
774 JOUB Battling serious Seattle-770 splatter all session
1053 Korean Jammer Transmitter seemed jammed up this session
1287 JOHK Japanese male talk in oppressive KKOL splatter 1335UT
1044 CRI Brief seconds of JJ speech above the noise at 1318UT
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) :
648 VOR Rising above noise level with CC briefly at 1310UT
1134 KBS? Weak music in CKWX splatter at 1342UT
Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or
ravaged by splatter):
558, 639, 693, 1017, 1035, 1143, 1566, 1575
73 and Good DX,
Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)
7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight +
12" Medium Wave FSL antenna
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