Not a great morning - but not a bad one for doing a bit more homework and getting a better lay of the land.
Having been antenna challenged for the last decade or so, the last 3-4 weeks have been a wake up call with fresh antennas and renewed enthusiasm. Listening period: 1325UTC until 1410UTC 1325 529 Khz SQM Alaska Aero weather reports at great levels - little of nothing on 530 with W/NW Flag doing great rejection. https://youtu.be/4y--dIqSWPw 1326 567 Khz Japan - usual sedate OM talking in Japanese - never got that hot on the low band this AM. 1327 594 Khz Japan - at slightly more subdued levels in Japanese (747 and 774 present at good levels around now...) 1330 828 Khz Japan - one of the better low band signals with signature 1/2 hour music and YL announcements. 1332 972 Khz Korea - underperforming with music and talk... wait for it.... In the mud! 1334 1017 Khz UNid - got to good levels at times - low modulation - with talk by OM that was too muddled to make sense of or pick language 1334 1053 Khz S. Korea - usual jam consisting of what sounds like ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ditty, ... or something slight more naught.... what a waste of radio waves. Occasionally some Japanese surfaces here - but I have never actually heard North Korea on here - maybe they need a memo. 1335 1098 Khz UNid - OM talk in an unidentified lang. 1339 1278 Khz UNid - OM Talk down in the mud - would get near audio frequently - but never enough. 1339 1287 and 1386Khz - OM chat in Japanese - both frequencies were pretty "present" most of the morning. 1342 1566Khz - Korea - Signal winner of the morning without question - next door at 1575 Khz the VOA in Thailand was rocking it with Vietnamese and about 7 db less signal 1345 1323 Khz - China - CRI in Russia - solid signal - https://youtu.be/2vEA0jBsUzY - Video shows or has ID in CC and RR on the hour 1356 1503 Khz - UNid - OM chatting what I think is Chinese - 1404 621 Khz - N. Korea (t) - assume the occasional snippets of strident YL talk and the periodic sounds of sabres rattling. Shut the radios off at 1410 and the opening was still lively but showing signs of waning. Earlier in the set I tried to do a comprehensive scan of channels that had carriers on them that were worthy of "just short of audio..." This is what I got while listening/scanning between 1320 and 1330 UTC 558, 603, 621, 756, 792, 819, 909, 918, 936, 945, 1008, 1089, 1143, 1179, 1215, 1224, 1233, 1242, 1251, 1296, 1305, 1314, 1359, 1377, 1413, 1422, Looking forward to putting up a solid True North Flag this week and sucking up a bit more of that TP energy and hopefully nailing some TA's this season. Primary receiver: Drake R8 Second receiver: AOR 7030+ Third receiver: ICOM R71A Primary portable: Eton E1 Secondary portable: Sony 2010 -- *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
