Hello All, Unlike Nigel's dreary report Asian signals did continue a positive trend here this morning, with several second-tier TP's managing weak audio in between the vibrant big guns. 738-BEL2 managed its best audio of the new season (fair) around 1253, while both 603 and 657 had weak mixes of Korean and Chinese stations prior to sunrise enhancement. At my 1235 start time 1323-CRI was already managing one of its best signals this season (fair, with apparent Russian), so the band did show promise early on in the predawn darkness. Around this time both 603 and 657 already had weak mixes of Korean and Chinese, and 738-BEL2 was in and out with poor audio. Around 1252 the Taiwan signal peaked to a fair level, although San Francisco splatter forced recording on 737 kHz. Many Japanese and Korean big guns were already reaching S9 levels in the total darkness around this time, including 594-JOAK, 693-JOAB, 747-JOIB, 972-HLCA and the 1053-Jammer. Sunrise enhancement really didn't boost up signals very much, though, and the weak Chinese on 603, 657, 918, 936 and 1593 generally started to fade into the noise. 738-BEL2 had a late revival after 1400 with its female-voiced Chinese news (reaching the same fair level, although free of KCBS splatter), while 594-JOAK, 693-JOAB and 972-HLCA continued their S9 runs well past 1400. Overall it was an interesting morning, although the weaker Chinese stations on 918, 936 and 1593 seemed to bail out with the increasing daylight. Best signal overall was a tie between 594-JOAK at 1350 and 972-HLCA at 1355, both of which were at S9 levels in and out through most of the session. 594 JOAK Tokyo, Japan S9 level (in and out) with Japanese female and male speech during sunrise enhancement at 1352 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/stgo2me3ed3m330/594-JOAK-1352z100914PL380.MP3 603 HLSA Namyang, S. Korea Weak Korean pop music and female speech late in sunrise enhancement at 1358 http://www.mediafire.com/listen/zw3rcb25q6t9xdj/603-HLSA-1358z100914PL380.MP3 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan Chinese male variety show host with fair level speech at 1352; best signal of new season so far http://www.mediafire.com/listen/fhs7tondatt81aw/738-BEL2-1253z100914PL380.MP3 972 HLCA Dangjin, S. Korea S9 level Korean female and male speech at 1348; very strong throughout the entire session http://www.mediafire.com/listen/81of3yon63lldcm/972-HLCA-1348z100914PL380.MP3 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA) 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight + 15" FSL antenna _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca
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