The ionosphere really cooperated this AM! Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and possibly Russian stations were heard across the low- and mid-band of mediumwave, from 1340 to 1440 UTC. In all, I had 23 mediumwave split frequencies heard with at least "threshold" audio.
Strongest of all were 594 (Japanese), 693 (Japanese), 774 (Japanese), 972 (Korean), and 1143 kHz (Chinese). Particularly noteworthy was 693 JOAB Tokyo with English news, parallel to 774 with Radio Japan news including shortwave frequencies and meterband announcement. A short recording is here: http://www.guyatkins.com/files/JOAB_693_EE_nx.mp3 The announcer in the clip seems to be talking about the overnight mooring of the USS Lake Erie (http://www.lake-erie.navy.mil/) at Hidekei (sp?) Port in Japan, with mention's of the vessel's special defensive radar capabilities. I also had Chinese coming in on 738, which was likely the Hunan Satellite BS station from Changsha, at 200 kw. Most intriguing was a possible Russian station, 657 kHz heard around 1350. If so, it's the R. Rossi station in Chita, Siberia. A short recording is here: http://www.guyatkins.com/files/657_kHz.mp3 Can anyone help confirm the language? I didn't get the frequency exactly at zero-beat in LSB, so it's a bit squawky. Guy Atkins Puyallup, WA USA Modified RA6790GM & R75 Kiwa MAP / ERGO / DSP-59+ 450 & 700 ft. Beverage Antennas ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is out! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt