This morning marked a tick upward again, with more than initially met the ear, even a little after sunrise DX too. Band peak was probably between 1330 and 1340UT.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK woman in Japanese 1259UT; didn't do so well later 747 JOIB Chinese lessons 1338UT 774 JOUB Chinese lessons 1338UT 828 JOBB Chinese lessons 1340UT. This one and JOIB-747 came back for a reprise at 1433UT with quite readable signals, half an hour after local sunrise. Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 612 4QR two men in DU English 1359UT 693 JOAB Chinese lessons 1318UT 873 JOGB Chinese lessons 1341UT 972 HLCA man in Korean, another on phone 1254UT 1566 HLAZ woman in Japanese, piano music and female vocal 1334UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 558 unID; pop vocal, not //603; JOCR? 567 JOIK man in Japanese //594 1301UT 666 JOBK two men talking //594 1314UT 738 Taiwan Fisheries woman in Chinese 1332UT; later ID'd with 1143 891 JOHK man talking Japanese, not //594 1256UT; was parallel until 1255UT 909 JOCB Chinese lessons 1340UT 1287 JOHR man and woman in Japanese 1442-44UT; this seemed the strongest time for this one today, well after local sunrise 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 JOQG man talking //594 1313UT, very weak, but not much splatter on 531 558 HLQH woman talking //603 1332UT 603 HLSA, as 558 1332UT 702 man talking, DU English intonation 1320UT 711 woman talking, Chinese intonation 1330UT 837 JOQK man talking //594 1317UT 945 man talking, Chinese intonation 1257UT 954 JOKR likely, man in Japanese? 1358UT 1143 Taiwan Fisheries woman talking and music //738 1346UT 1242 JOLF likely, man and woman talking, Japanese intonation 1455UT, an hour after local sunrise, and only appearance of audio this morning Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 702 756 855 864 918 981 1008 1053 1098 1134 1323 1359 1386 1503 seemed to be Asian; 576 585 657 756 846 936 1017 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