<<< It appears Tonga may have been on late, but they are so undermodulated that even though there was a strong carrier, any audio was near imaginary >>> As you may have noticed, Nick, 1017-Tonga had a decent carrier right at our 1030 UTC show up times on both Saturday and Monday at the Cliff but could only manage anemic audio at best. Most of the time it stayed just above the noise level, getting hammered by 1020-KTNQ splatter. Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Hall-Patch" <n...@ieee.org> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@hard-core-dx.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 10:07:44 PM Subject: [IRCA] TP 13 July Victoria version It appears Tonga may have been on late, but they are so undermodulated that even though there was a strong carrier, any audio was near imaginary pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 738 Tahiti, pop music 1151UT, not quite Rockworks, but not bad. Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): the above passing through not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: the above passing through 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) 1017 woman mumbling 1210-1211UT, very big carrier. 1098 man talking, DU English perhaps, 1145UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 1035 1107 1566 best wishes, Nick _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. Registration info: http://www.nrcdxas.org 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 _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Be sure to register now for the Joint DX Convention Kansas City, September 9 to 11. Hotel space is filling up. Registration info: http://www.nrcdxas.org 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
