[IRCA] TP 25 May Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Big pullback on the Asians, with more DU evidence in their place



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):

1017 Tonga assumed with island vocals 1216UT; had faded up to audio several 
times since 1130UT




not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could 
be understood by a native speaker: 

1566 HLAZ presumed with woman in Chinese 1140UT



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)  

756 countryish female vocal 1212UT; RNZ National? No parallels

774 man and woman talking, Japanese intonation 1121UT

774 man talking excitedly, DU English? sports? 1155UT; nothing on hour

909 woman talking DU English? 1213UT

1287 man talking 1148UT, Japanese intonation





Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged 
by splatter)

828 1242 1323 seemed to be Asian;
675 702 819 846  1017 1035 1503  seemed to be DU 



best wishes,

Nick








Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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Re: [IRCA] [nrc-am] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 28-May 25, 2018

[Glenn Hauser via IRCA]

--- Begin Message ---
Thanks for concluding that I am superior because I can tell when a station has 
serious technical problems, which would be patently obvious to people in charge 
of stations if they ever turned on a radio, listened to themselves. It`s not my 
job to try to inform them, run a station or fix the problems, as an observer, 
which I enjoy accomplishing. Too bad you don`t. (Sometimes I do try to 
privately aid a station which I value.) gh


On Fri, 5/25/18, Paul B. Walker, Jr.  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [nrc-am] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 28-May 25, 2018
 To: 
 Cc: "NRC-AM" , "AMFMTVDX" , 
"MWC yg" , "mwdx" , "Mailing 
list for the International Radio Club of America" 
 Date: Friday, May 25, 2018, 7:16 PM
 
 Glenn, how
 about you drop the constant superior attitude and slamming
 of stations and their operations? It gets old and tiring. I
 largely stopped doing that 10 years ago, in my 20s!!  I
 highly doubt you could handle running a station or fix the
 problems you so regularly complain about. Instead of whining
 here, which accomplishes NOTHING why not contact the station
 directly?
 
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[IRCA] Domestic MWDX to Enid OK, April 28-May 25, 2018

[Glenn Hauser via IRCA]

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All times and dates strictly UT [4 hours ahead of `ELT` during EDT; when 
changing times one must also change the dates for events in the 00-04 UT period 
to the previous date by ELT].

Rx: mostly DX-398 with internal antenna only or PL-880; NRD-545 with ALA-330S 
inside E-W or inside randomwire N-S; Nissan stock caradio as specified; IC-R75 
with E-W longwire.

These logs are excerpts from my daily all-band reports, mainly SWBC, also 
VHF/UHF, sometimes, utility, ham, which may be found in several archives 
without much delay, such as 
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser

And compiled weekly along with extensive news from many other individuals and 
publications in DX LISTENING DIGEST: 
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html

All my MW DX reports starting August 2011 are archived in this forum with open 
access: 
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?6543-MW-DX-from-Enid-OK-by-Glenn-Hauser/page69
[over 299,000 views! as of May 25, 2018]

These logs are in four sections, Canada [if any], Oklahoma [if any], rest of 
USA [if any], unidentified [if any], separated by === Within each, they are 
in frequency order

** CANADA. 2748.97 or .98, May 4 at 0149 UT, Synthyl in English with 
marine weather, misleadingly mentions Washington DC; ``she`` has a 
pleasant, well-enunciated voice, except hard to copy proper names 
other than ``Bay of Fundy`` at 0152 UT. As carrierless pure SSB, it`s 
difficult to pinpoint, but voice sounds most natural 20-30 Hz offset 
below nominal 2749.

Now to look up which station it be. The CCG website now has archived 
the 2017 schedule we had referred to, as outdated, redirecting us to 
the 2018. The pdf version
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/folios/01224/docs/RAMN-2018-eng.pdf
runs 333 pages! So slower computers might avoid it, too much info. 
Here`s the quick one for the Atlantic area:
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2018/Part2#21

And search the closest previous time to the log. Fortunately, it`s the 
very first one:
``Halifax MCTS/VCS – Broadcasts
Time UT Site Frequency Contents
0140Chebogue 2749J3E   Radiotelephony (English followed by French)
Technical marine, synopsis, forecasts and wave height forecasts 
for marine areas 201 to 208.
U.S. weather forecasts for Coastal Waters (Eastport to Schoodic 
Point, Maine) and Offshore Waters (Gulf of Maine to the Hague Line).
Notices to Shipping in areas Bay of Fundy, South and West Coast 
Nova Scotia`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See NEWFOUNDLAND

==

** OKLAHOMA. 530, May 3 at 2030 UT check, K530AM, Vance AFB, has 
resumed modulating irrelevant PSAs after days and days of dead air; 
maybe yesterday or ante-yesterday when I didn`t check.

530, May 16 at 2004 UT, ``K530AM``, Vance AFB has again 
crashed to dead air. Still so May 17 at 1555 UT.

530 kHz, May 19 circa 1930 UT, I am driving along Rupe street near 
Vance AFB, so try to hear K530AM on caradio --- not a bit of it vs 
high storm noise level. Back home with a BFO I can tell the carrier is 
still on, 1229 UT check May 20 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST) 

** OKLAHOMA. 1230, May 3 at 1200 UT, WBBZ is sufficiently into the 
dayside to dominate any remaining skywave, ID as ``Hometown Radio, 
WBBZ, Ponca City``, CBS bong and news. I`m astounded to learn that 
WBBZ`s talkhosts are all residents of Ponca City: Dan Patrick, Rush 
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Fox Sports, Coast to Coast, Kim 
Komando [come on, what`s her real name?], etc., etc. O, there is one 
local hour, M-F 12-13 UT, Good Morning[,] Ponca City! And per the sked
http://www.poncapost.com/wbbz-schedule
WBBZ has no programming on Sundays, which I rather doubt (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

==

** U S A. 910, May 2 at 1205 UT, ``Kyrie Eleison`` and then Christian 
service in English. First thought it might be RCatholic, but NW/SE and 
most likely from KPOF Denver, which per NRC AM Log now stands for 
``Point of Faith``, rather than ``Pillar of Fire``; so the old slogan 
was a bit too threatening? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1010, May 4 at 0136 UT, lo-key chat in Spanish by a padre 
with slight Anglo accent, about PJP2, then musulmanes en Filipinas 
sending their kids to Catholic schools. By now I`m thinking to compare 
it to WEWN 5970, and sure enough, it`s the same, about two words 
behind SW. 1010 loops slightly CCW from E-W, which is also just right 
for KTNZ, Amarillo, Tejas.

Six years ago KTNZ was ``Super Tejano`` per a stalled FB page searched 
out; last year it was ESPN in English; and some otherwhen hits called 
it `LaRaza``. But flipped again back to Spanish, this time another 
religion, EWTN, as first heard here last October as in DXLD 17-40 et 
seq. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1060-, May 4 at 0133 UT, contact info in Spanish with a 605 
AC phone number?? That would be South Dakota, but I don`t think KGFX 
Pierre would be in Spanish; 

[IRCA] TP 24 May Victoria version

[Nick Hall-Patch]

Japan ruled the waves this morning, peaking about 1130UT; quite surprising for 
late May



pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least 
briefly):

774 JOUB man in Japanese 1134UT, briefly at this level




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 and man in Japanese 1130UT




not so reasonable audio, occasional words or phrases in splash or noise could 
be understood by a native speaker: 

the above passing through



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)  

693 JOAB orchestral music followed by woman talking //774 1129UT

972 man talking, too much splatter to guess at language, but likely HLCA? 1132UT

1287 woman and man talking 1130UT, Japanese intonation

1386 NHK2 man talking //774 1122UT, near imaginary, but clearly parallel for 
about 15 seconds.




Strongish het, no or "near imaginary" audio (either undermodulated or ravaged 
by splatter)

 1008 1206 1242 1323 1566 1575 seemed to be Asian;
837 846  1017 1098 1503  1548 seemed to be DU 



best wishes,

Nick








Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada  

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