If you should have gotten up one day this week, this was likely it - Good 1st and 2nd tier performance from many of the regular Japanese stations with stellar performances on some of the Korean regulars -- and even an odd appearance from some actual programming on 1053 above the jammer!
In order of appearance: times in UTC 1309 - 594 khz - JOAK Tokyo - NHK - assume the obvious here with JJ YL - you tube video - https://youtu.be/U8u_RF93Ogs Checked 774 Khz which was armchair quality JJ as well 1310 - 972 khz - Korea - KBS - fair - good levels with KK OM 1311 - 1566 Khz - FEBC Korea - Japanese speaking YL with piano music - S9 on the Drake 1312 - 529 Khz - SQM - Alaska - Noted in the clear with AERO reports for the approaches to Alaska - always a good sign of favorable conditions. 1314 - 1053 Khz - DPRK - N. Korea - Noted at times with clear programming - https://youtu.be/S91cjK5z84Q A little fuzzy on this: Does S. Korea jam North Korea or is it the other way around? OK - the PAL lists the DPRK as the actual program source and the jammers are in Seoul. OK. Got it now. 1315 - 1179 Khz - JOOR - MBS Japan - assume the gaggle of squealing YL's - fr. gd. often in the clear. The N/NW Flag doing stellar duty! 1318 - 1053 Khz DPRK - YL/OM Sedate chat over top of the jammer - sometimes with virtual no evidence of jammer - unusual! 1324 - 567 Khz JOIK Hokkaido Japan - JJ OM / 594 Khz at great levels as well 1326 - 639 Khz Unknown - OM Lang in the mud and last vestiges of KFI Los Angeles. This is a tough one with 640 and dragon splatter from 650 khz. 1329 - 1098 Khz Unknown - Lang convo's in the splash often at good levels. 1331 - 1242 Khz JOLF Tokyo - JJ OM and YL often in the clear. 1332 - 1251 Khz - Unkown - new frequency for me from Victoria - OM Dialog in Lang - curious to see what others heard here. 1333 - 1386 Khz - Japan Syncro's - OM chat in JJ + Music in the clear - WOW... 1339 - 891 Khz - - Japan - JOHK Miagi, Sendai - https://youtu.be/wYZcIz7Jkt8 Nice youtube video of pretty decent signal with YL/OM back and forth. 1340 - 954 Khz - Japan - JOKR Tokyo - JJ YY Chat -- a quick tune up revealed a muddy mess on 963Khz - when conditions improve this channel can light up with CRI Foreign service... not this AM. 1346 - 612 Khz - Australia - 4QR - the lone Aussie on here with stilted OM in EE. minutes after this, the band appeared to tank. Primary receiver - Drake R8 - Antenna N/NW Flag ( 47' long X 25 ' high ) with Wellbrook FLG100 head - terminated with a home-brew VACTROL (variable resistance termination) for some pretty impressive front to back. 2nd receiver: AOR 7030+ and a Wellbrook ALA100M -- *Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada* _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com
