Stayed up as late as I could last night -- turning in at around 11:30PM local -- consequently, slept until 6:20AM and scratched the morning session -
This is what I noted last night -- chronologically... UTC KHZ Station - Location - Comments 0802 972 Korea in solidly w/ CC underneath also noted JJ on 909 and 954 0809 1035 New Zealand - Newstalk radio //1296 - Aus EE on 1107 as well 0815 1251 Unid EE Relig - assume something via VO Russia perhaps? Huge. 0818 1260 Japan - NHK assumed w/ other stuff co-channel 0819 1305 Unids - jumble of Asian sounding things here... as opposed to Aussie 0822 1341 Huge jumble next to 1340 which was also a graveyard sounding jumble of mainland stations - thank heavens for the 2.2khz setting on the E1 0838 1512 Australia ABC (t) w/ EE News w/ that familiar accent 0914 1206 Fiji (t) assume the Island music w/ familiar sounding lang. 0915 1197 Japan (t) assume the JJ YL chatter - imagine this would be one of the myriad of 3rd tier independent JJ stations - at this point I was hearing familiar JJ stuff on 531, 558, 567, 585, NOT 594, 666, 747, 774, NOT 828, + a dozen or so more above 1100khz 0917 1089 3 or more Asian stations fighting it out for supremacy - generally (last December when I was here -) this is all CC all the time or some FS lang from Beijing. 0921 927 Taiwan (t) assume the very, very loud CC with bad modulation and pop music Just before I turned in I had audio and or jumbles of station on 1602 (a real mess), 1593 CC, 1584 jumble, 1575 2 or 3 duking it out 1566 Korea all the way, 1557 jumble, 1548 CC and EE, 1521 jumble 1503, 1494 jumble, 1476 RTM Sabah (t) w/ lang, 1467 jumble, 1440 JOWF in charge, 1422 jumble, 1413 jumble, 1386 JJ, 1377 CC, 1350 huge jumble, 1332-1314 JJ, 1296 EE, 1287 JJ, 1278 JJ, 1260 jumble, etc etc down to 1170 where there was a mix of korean and something else... familiar CC On 1134 and 1143 Exhausting - with the only challenge being an S3 "ignition" kind of noise and some digital hash A familiar handful of WCNA's from Vancouver and L.A. popped up - and some Spanish on a couple of frequencies Slowly getting more organized - need to optimize the antenna some... 14 or 15 more days in paradise. -- .......................................................................................... Colin Newell - Editor - CoffeeCrew DOT Com --- Victoria, British Columbia - Blog - Coffee DOT BC DOT CA DXer DOT CA and Bob Harris DOT Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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