Yes, I believe that they are 24 hours now
Neil:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/345935/tonga-s-tbc-goes-24-hours
best wishes,
Nick
At 17:42 2018-06-12, Neil Kazaross wrote:
So more reports of Tonga being on passed former 1000ish s/off time! Is this
every night now? If so, I should have chances here in IL. 73 KAZ
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:13 AM, Nick Hall-Patch <n...@ieee.org> wrote:
> Quite a bit livelier today, with emphasis on Asians, but some DU also
> later on.
>
>
> 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):
>
> 747 JOIB woman in Japanese 1129UT; the 750 splatter let up for a moment.
>
> 774 JOUB English lessons 1121UT
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> not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise
> could be understood by a native speaker:
>
> 612 4QR mentions of ABC news by woman 1204UT
>
> 1116 4BC assumed, two men in DU English, teletalk 1137UT
>
>
>
> 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)
>
> 594 man talking, Japanese intonation 1120UT
>
> 594 3WV had been bouncing around with vocal music and DU English sounding
> talk, since 1151UT, not //612, but delivered a weak ABC fanfare at 1200UT
>
> 693 JOAB man talking //747 1128UT
>
> 702 pop vocal 1132UT; suspect 2BL, but could be NZ; definitely not NHK2
>
> 828 JOBB man talking //747 1120UT
>
> 1017 man talking, island language? woman on phone 1135UT; Tonga suspected
>
> 1134 laid back vocal music 1112UT; Korea?
>
> 1287 woman talking, Japanese? 1119UT; too much splash for certainty
>
> 1566 man talking Chinese intonation 1114UT
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> Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or
> ravaged by splatter)
>
> 972 1422 seemed to be Asian;
> 558 576 585 738 756 846 855 909 1098 seemed to be DU
>
>
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
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> Nick Hall-Patch
> Victoria, BC
> Canada
>
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