An odd and somewhat frustrating morning. The Japanese were mostly down considerably, and though there were plenty of indications of Chinese, for the most part, they weren't all that strong. Mind you, there were huge carriers on 891 and 918, the former delivering no audio at all, and the latter quite weak audio from Shandong. And there were even a couple of DUs.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK man in Japanese 1421UT Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 558 HLQB ballad //603 (which was really struggling) 1420UT. This one generally outperformed 603 this morning 738 Taiwan Fisheries, woman in Chinese 1422UT; paralleled with 1143 a couple of times, though not when this strong 747 JOIB English lessons 1423UT 774 JOUB intro to English lessons 1420UT 963 CRI man in Russian 1429UT; had paralleled with 1323 earlier when weaker not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 693 JOAB English lessons 1430UT 918 Shandong RGD man in Chinese 1431UT, a short while later it was weaker with flute music, though carrier was still very strong, and was able to parallel with web stream which followed quite closely 1575 VoA assumed, woman in SE Asian language 1435UT 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) 531 man talking, DU English intonation 1427UT 567 JOIK man talking //594 1424UT 585 man talking, not //594, sounded like DU English intonation 1432UT 603 HLSA ballad //558 1420UT, mostly under Chinese? speaker 603 China? man talking, Chinese intonation 1425UT, easing in and out of HLSA 612 man talking, DU English intonation 1442UT 639 CNR1 man talking 1430UT, //945 1432UT 675 pop music, man talking, DU English? 1426UT; no RNZ National parallels available 945 CNR1 a few seconds of talk somewhat offset from 639 1432UT 972 two stations here, one sounded like man speaking Chinese, then woman, 1427UT 1143 Taiwan Fisheries woman in Chinese //738 1427UT 1323 CRI man talking Russian? //963 1415UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 657 729 756 801 837 936 981 1008 1035 1053 1089 1107 1134 1251 1314 seemed to be Asian; 576 621 846 1017 1098 seemed to be DU best wishes, Nick Nick Hall-Patch Victoria, BC 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