It was an odd morning. Nothing was very strong for any length of time even on the big guns, and a lot of weak audio was heard from smaller guns, also for short lengths of time. Audio from China through New Zealand was featured, without too much rhyme or reason as to what was being heard when. 1300 to 1330UT encompassed most of the action
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): not today Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling w/splash or noise): 594 JOAK woman in Japanese 1301UT 774 3LO man and woman, DU English 1305UT //702; JOUB in the weeds 774 JOUB English lesson 1313UT 828 JOBB English news //693 1302UT 972 HLCA man and woman in Korean 1302UT, briefly at this level 1323 CRI woman in Russian, musical interlude, and more talk 1321UT //963 a moment later 1566 HLAZ man in Japanese 1304UT not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could be understood by a native speaker: 576 2RN woman mentioning BBC World Service 1316; //846 and 621 at various times 747 JOIB English lessons 1313UT 891 5AN? man on phone, woman in studio, DU English, 1319UT 828 3GI man talking 1259UT, pips, fanfare, and ABC news. 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) 567 man talking, DU English intonation 1305UT 585 7RN woman talking //576 1307UT 594 3WV under JOAK with fanfare 1300UT 603 light pop vocal, suspect HLSA, as ragged traces of something similar on 558; 1311UT 612 4QR old pop music //774 1309UT 621 3RN woman talking //576 1309UT; both low level, but quite clear 693 JOAB man and woman //828 1302UT 702 2BL woman talking //774 1305UT 738 2NR man and woman talking //612 1331UT 756 man talking DU English intonation 1301UT 846 2RN woman talking //576 1317UT 909 man talking, DU English intonation, 1306UT NZ? 945 CNR1 man talking, interspersed with CNR news sounders 1303UT 963 CRI, pretty rough with woman talking then man, but definitely //1323 1322UT 1134 man and woman, high octane Japanese talk? 1301UT 1242 man talking Japanese intonation 1327UT 1287 man talking Japanese intonation 1321UT Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged by splatter) 558 891 918 936 1026 1035 1179 1269 1314 1422 1503 1575 seemed to be Asian; 531 603 765 837 1017 1098 1107 1116 1503 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