This 50,00 Watt AM Station from Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, Japan has quickly become one of my favorite AM stations to log from here in the rural central interior region of Alaska.
Conditions on both AM and SW have been total crud for the last several days. . Some days, even my super strong, steady dependable JOLF 1242 from Tokyo has been weak. Eagle 810 rears it's head in the later morning hours. It's almost always there, but fairly regularly its barely above the mush, but I can "Tell" it's there. Fairly regularly the reception is well, Fair and sounds like this recording on December 14th at 1853UTC/953AM AKST: http://onairdj.com/AFNTheEagle810_12142016_953am.mp3 What's kind of interesting is when this signal is good, it never stays good for long.. it'll pop above the mush for 30 seconds, 2 maybe 3 minutes usually before fading into oblivion. The clip above from December 14th had reception hanging around for over 20 minutes or more. However, on December 20th between 1915 and 1921UTC, I had some pretty good reception for a little while. The signal was about as good as I've ever heard them and included the tail end of a PSA, a station liner along with two pop music songs. Here's two clips from December 20th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPwilUAN8Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-LKNUlTTA In that second clip, you can hear how quickly the signal turns to mush and how mushy and messy it gets. It's easy to spot an AFN station because the majority of their few AM signals that are left which play music are playing hit/pop/current music. At night, when I tune 810 I've never heard anything other then KGO San Francisco. KGO is at least audible, sometimes poor, sometimes fair and not very often, it's very good. Paul B. Walker, Jr. Galena, Alaska Grundig Sattelit 750 DX Engineering HF PreAmp 225 foot long wire _______________________________________________ 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