Craig,
Thanks for another great, detailed TP-DX report from Kalaloch. This is one of
the most extensive ocean coast session reports that I've ever seen from a live
DXer.
<<< This morning’s session saw a nice uptick in TP stations received. For a
minute I was wondering if this location
Not as good a morning here as yesterday, so glad that Craig Barnes did well at
Kalaloch.
pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least
briefly):
594 JOAK man and woman in Japanese 1347UT
972 HLCA "singing lessons"...haven't heard those for awhile 1340UT
The recordings here indicate that the special Migrant Fishermen program on 738
and 1143-Taiwan Fisheries is broadcast ONLY on Saturday night, Taiwan time
(Saturday morning, west coast time). This morning at 1312 UTC (2112 Sunday
night, Taiwan time) the 738 station was heard back in Chinese,
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This morning’s session saw a nice uptick in TP stations received. For a minute
I was wondering if this location predominantly favored Japanese stations. It
seems other PNW TP DXers also noted similar conditions.
531 at 1450 poor audio w/male & fem poss in JJ, through QRM
Asian conditions were very similar to yesterday's here, with exceptional
Japanese big gun signals (on 594 and 693) along with good audio from 603 (HLSA)
and 738. The high band signals on 1566, 1575 and 1593 were also in play once
again, with a generous daybreak boost peaking around 1345.
Once
from DX reported on 18 March 2018:
864 JOHE? Although at poor strength, woman was reading slow call
letters, sounding like JOHE, before 2 and 1 pips at 1400UT. JOHE
however is part of the HBC group and I don't think I've heard them
using call letters, plus it's only 3 kw from an interior
> On Mar 25, 2018, at 11:41 AM, Gary DeBock wrote:
>
> Yes, my neighbor has apparently deployed a plasma TV or something, causing an
> S6 noise level on most MW frequencies here in Puyallup. The FSL's can null
> the noise down to about S3, but it's just one more reason
Thanks Bill,
Theo D. (my Kiwi English translator every August) was kind enough to sleuth
this one out for me, providing me with this link giving the full details on
this Taiwan Fisheries special operation
www.atimes.com/article/radio-program-for-migrant-fishermen-airs-on-sundays/
If your 1143
That audio’s kind of rough Gary. Wouldn’t hazard a guess at the language -
though it’s NOT Mandarin. ;-)
In going thru Grayland wav files from a month back I found 1143 going out of
Mandarin and into what appeared to be Tagalog or some other Philippino dialect.
I can’t recall the time now.