Things have gotten late enough that I've quit setting the alarm so I
did not get to the dials until 1403 this AM. (LSR=1420 UTC). Still,
it was a very good morning, North Korea 657 seems to have been
working on their transmitter: a nice clean signal this AM. 666 was
Chinese this AM at 1410, all
I'd taken a couple of mornings off, but was at the dials from 1330 to
1430 this morning... generally, I shoulda taken another morning
off. Well below average to poor would be my assessment. Although I
did eventually get a modest number of audios, even on the upper band
at dawn, things were far
I'm looking forward to downloading e-mail today (at the Local Tavern,
since the Library is closed on Mondays). In general, I hope the NW
DX Reports for this morning are "Pedestrian," because that is darn
sure what Guy and I experienced here. Guy didn't quite get his
Lankford Array set up at th
After I uploaded yesterday, I got to thinking how ungrateful I was
for the less than wonderful conditions down here. After all it is
quite a bit of expense and two long travel days to come to Grayland
from Orcas and return... and to find reception no better than at home
is a downer. STILL, the
Conditions seem to be "healing" somewhat along with the arrival of
the fall rainy season. In general, signals seemed somewhat better and
the more northerly routes (the Russians) were at least present, if
not at full strength. I managed a long log for a reception report
(yet again) for Voice of
Fabulous report, Gary...
I'm sorry to say that I've yet to reattach loop heads, etc. for my
antennas, so I slept in on a very good Asian morning. I'd love to
have both 891 and 792 MP3s... for obvious reaspons, especially as 792
is concerned :>)
Be sure and turn in your log to Ol' Rob, Sergea
As was reported elsewhere, Thursday morning showed significant
improvement from our first three days down in Grayland. With Guy's
new QDFA antenna working 100% finally, I'd expect some very nice
loggings when he finishes reviewing all of his Perseus recordings.
Since I still do things the old f
Well, I'm somewhat glad to hear of the pedestrian conditions. I went
out yesterday in the rain to re-install my Wellbrook loop heads here
after the trip to Grayland and then set the alarm this morning for
well before dawn. Got up, fired up the receiver and ZAP! the lights
went out on three of
Believe me, Nick, I really thought about the current draw on that
receiver when I punched on the 313e and my shack lights went out less
than 30 seconds later. I was quite relieved when I looked out the
windows and found the entire town also jet black. Had I known in
advance, I'd have gotten a 1
Normally here at mid-season, I see a post-dawn period that varies
between 15 and 30 minutes. Not so long as the post-dawn period that
we enjoy routinely at Grayland, but welcome, nonetheless. With local
SR at 1427 today, I was hoping to hear the JJ Big Guns at TOH 1500
and maybe hear them sign
At 05:48 PM 10/18/2009 -0700, you wrote:
Nick had reported hearing NHK2 s/off at 1500 in late September.
I subsequently found the NHK2 schedule on their website, and
confirmed that they are now signing off every night at 1500. That's
good news as the season progresses, since it will make 693
Yup,
Like I observed yesterday, 747//774//828 all just kept trucking at
1500. I quit at 1512, with 747 still going well, but the other two
were there with only poor audio.
John B.
At 04:03 PM 10/19/2009 +, you wrote:
>
NHK2's s/off seems to have moved back to 1600 at least. Pr
Things continued to be quite good this morning, with the Chinese
seeming somewhat better than usual.
540 was the strongest CNR1 that I've heard there at 1430 dawn
765 seemed to be Chinese, but with an echo that I've not heard
before... and none listed in my version of PAL
1062 just after 140
I'm in the midst of making some minor modifications to the Wellbrook
Array here and that may have affected my morning results. In any
case, my results were "Uninspiring" this morning they weren't
bad, weren't good, just sorta low normal. The upper band seemed down,
especially, though there
Fellas,
CNR1 was running an hour long music program this morning starting at
about 1403... not classical opera, at least when I was listening. It
was more an Asian pops program. I think that it was an hour long.
John Bryant
At 07:14 PM 10/20/2009 +, you wrote:
At 18:43 10/20/2009,
I got my antenna mods completed yesterday before the rains returned
and I really don't know whether my excellent results here reflect
excellent band conditions or some improvements in the Wellbrook Array
or both. I suspect the latter. For me, the band was all about China.
The JJ regulars were
Bill Brock mentioned that it was a strange morning, with only the low
stuff working, but that pretty good. Same here. The bottom half of
the band was almost 100% audio sometime during dawn enhancement; the
top half was about as bad as I've seen it in the last two months.
Further, only the lowes
We were all listening to the same band this morning! Pretty useless above 972.
However, the bottom 25% of the band had some interesting things:
558: Like Gary, HLQH, KBS 2 in Daegu was a new station for me. I
could hear Kobe beneath the KK, but it was way beneath.
585: There was a second As
I'd been meaning to comment on Nigel's GREAT morning on Oct. 21...
That was a real peak here, too... but MAN I've have rather heard
Nigel's stations!
Urumqi, as the capitol of Xinjiang province is a nasty industrial
city from what I hear, but it is surrounded by some of the most
exotic cultur
Gary DeBock and I have both been watching this frequency lately, in
fact I've been watching it all season. Using my detailed spectrum
display on the 313e (4 kHz = about 4" in a oscilloscope-type display)
I can see that usually there is an on-frequency carrier there that is
ragged and muddy... a
I'm with the group who heard TPs beginning to come back. As Bruce
said, maybe not quite up to the Seasonal Average for this wonderful
October, but still pretty fine stuff. Both the lower and upper band
were better than yesterday and things seemed kind of disturbed... a
few things stronger than
I definitely heard the same band as Walt this morning though I quit a
little earlier. We had a few small differences:
549: Where Walt had NHK1 late in the morning, I enjoyed Mayak at the
same time... Wow! Mayak was by itself and actually stronger than
576, which was also back doing quite well
I guess that my glass was half full, were Walt's was half empty!
The band was very much like the last several days pretty useless
above1000, but below there, I had wall-to-wall audio at some point
during dawn. Although most channels were occupied by the usual
suspects, there were several q
Deane,
I have Level Island here every morning unless the sub-Arctic is
totally wiped out. They get out well!
John Bryant
near Vancouver, BC
At 10:39 AM 10/26/2009 -0600, you wrote:
Listened this morning on the SR-II barefoot from 1330 to 1400,
JOAK-594 and JOIB-747 both
had good audio at
Sorry that I didn't report yesterday: it was just so depressing! I
worked on my attitude overnight and, sure enough, things were
improved quite a bit this morning!
The lower band was at least at some point between 1400 and
1500... about 80% full of audio... up markedly from yesterday,
es
My spectrum chart does not look as bad as it should, though it is
pretty bad. Most of the signals that were there put in quite brief
peaks of audio and then disappeared in the murk. Even at that, I
only had about half the audios of yesterday on the lower band. The
upper band was about the same
Kevin Schanilec and I were able to get both Wellbrook arrays up on
Friday afternoon: a phased array of 2 triangular K9AYs and another
massive new array of two 17' x 60' Super Loops. Both arrays were
pointed NW and were separated and staggered by about 150 feet. It
was quite a job including a t
Having had such a productive Japanese opening very early yesterday,
on our first morning here, Kevin and I got up at 1115UTC, now the
equivalent of 3:15AM LST, a full hour ahead of yesterday's start.
Like Day ONE, this morning we found the band already rather full of
fairly strong signals from
At 05:17 PM 10/31/2009 -0500,Neil Kazaross wrote:
(SEE MY RESPONSE BELOW - Bryant) : This is good news about the
arrays. Once again I will stress that I think end fire arrays of two
cardioid antennas will be a major step forward for those with the
room to use them (home users need a good sized
I got up at 3:00 on Monday morning, expecting to antenna test for
about an hour and then DX until dawn as per usual. I did that first
hour of antenna testing with very interesting results, but at that
point, I pulled the plug. Conditions were down considerably from
Sunday and down even more fro
I was at the dial from 1450 until I quit for breakfast at 1525, with
things still going fairly well. LSR=1505 or so.
It was a very good late season opening with 50 or 60 in some form of
audio, from bottom of the band to the top. Most were the usuial
suspects at greater or lesser strength than
My first try for Farda bore fruit... I noted the first carrier at
0017, coming and going, then steady by 0043 and very low audio
(clearly WELL modulated) soon after. Could barely distinguish the
speaking, but the music wasn't bad and WAS // internet stream. A bit
over 7300 miles... the same d
Also hearing the weakest audio on 1503. Saudi?
John B.
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try as R.Sawa from
Kuwait has been my best TA signal here tonight, better than Farda.
73,
Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, Alberta
John H. Bryant wrote:
Also hearing the weakest audio on 1503. Saudi?
John B.
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Quite a few hets all over the band now most low level. Very
limited audio from 1089 (Britain?) 1278 (France) and 918 () Will
keep watching.
John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
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We'uns be hearing you!
John B.
At 03:50 AM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote:
Not sure whether this email address is connecting with IRCA. Please
confirm! ..Walt (bobbing around in the S. Pacific)
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Just finished another band scan and things were down, until I got to
963 and there was decent audio. It was almost TOH 0500, so I stuck
around and, sure enough, it was Finland Radio China International
ending one Baltic language and starting another. And I got a
recording of most of the ID
I'm still living in the glow of Farda and Pori and plotting an
assault on Iran tonight... I had a second maybe Iran on 1026...
But to the present: It was a good but not great late season morning.
Most of the lower band had audio at one time or another. The upper
band was less populated, but
Try // 5030 which is a boomer CNR1 here on the Left Coast.
John B.
At 07:33 PM 11/8/2009 +, you wrote:
At 19:16 11/8/2009, you wrote:
>Bill:
>
>By far the most likely from Grayland is the CNR1 outlet in Jilin.
Any CNR1 parallels available (SW or MW?)
Also by far the most likely inl
I had a strong het on 531 about the time of my
Pori, Finland logging, so I was saying a strong
DXers prayer for Faroes, already logged by
near-by Nick Hall-Patch. Prayer went unanswered
yesterday, but I have hope for tonight!
John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultra
I couldn't believe it especially since I was also following
carriers on 576 and 666 plus low audio on 747. Geez, I'm going to BED!
John B.
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There I was at 10PM local time, concentrating on 774 hoping for
Spain, probably... heck, it was 3:00PM in Tokyo... As I concentrated
on the murmur, it began to rise and I was "listening in my best
Mexican Spanish," while not forgetting a big Hungarian and a Morrocan
station co-channel, and the
0200 from Orcas... some hets plus audio on 1539 (VOA???) and 1575
Farda both below language recognition.
JOhn B.
At 12:44 AM 11/10/2009 +, you wrote:
Well, it's sunset, and there are lots of TA carriers, and audio
traces on 945kHz briefly. Everything else is also very erratic.
Ni
At 18:22 11/8/2009, Chuck Hutton wrote:
Nick Hall-Patch had his ALA-100 array at Grayland with myself and
Bruce Portzer Oct. 3 and 4. During that period, we compared it with a
1400' Beverage at 320 degrees that was terminated via 3 six foot
ground rods. A different antenna than a 600' Beverage
ately, High Tide and
property ownership hits the Grayland at about the 600 to 700 foot
mark, so..
I don't know what else to say,
John Bryant
Orcas Island, WA, USA
Winradio G313e and various Ultralights
Wellbrook Phased Array + Superloops
At 04:02 AM 11/10/2009 -0800, you wr
Bill,
I'm really glad that you have retaken the DXer banner after all of
these years far too large/long a hiatus, IMHO.
John B.
At 08:08 AM 11/10/2009 -0500, you wrote:
This morning [10/10] I had 'traces' of various strengths on the
Perseus waterfall graph in 'zoom' setting on; 594,
It was one of those mornings where it is not at all difficult to
remember that it is a PRIVILEGE to hear any DX at all from over the
waves. This morning was one of the very best of the late season
mornings. The dial was basically full below 1070 and many of the
signals were VERY robust. Above
Farda doing very well here w/fades at 0042 LSR
John B.
At 12:24 AM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote:
Looking mildly promisingweak audio on 1215, enough to match to
Absolute's website. A few other carriers including snippets of
1539, 1575, 1503, 1134, 1377
Nick
**
Got Radio Farda on 1575 big time as mentioned. I also had Iran at
0058 to 0103... some Koranic chanting just before TOH and more modern
Persian (?) music at 0102. I did not know of // on internet then...
but I'm counting this baby. Had Egypt on 819 with decent copy at
around 0112 to 0115
109
Not too much beside Droitwich was doing at 0500 on MW, so I dropped
down to longwave on a lark and caught something on 234 kHz.
Initially, it was at a listenable level, but by 0525, it had slid to
murmur level I am not at all good on European languages. It
sounded sorta like Russian/Germa
This is another one of those days where its a privilege to TP DX and
it was even better than yesterday. I happened to get up two hours
before dawn today (1300) and DXed for an hour at thatr time it
was like September. GREAT JJ signals in some cases and a number of
JJ stations unheard in mo
With Nigel and Nick both chiming in, it sounds to me like my early
bird JJ on 720 was Voice of Russia heard here even on an
Ultralight. Well, poo! JOIL is such a nice set of call letters, too!
John B.
At 05:26 PM 11/11/2009 +, you wrote:
At 17:00 11/11/2009, you wrote:
>720, briefl
Had Farda well and some audio on 1539. Het only on 1503 all around 0025
1278 France Bleu at 254
918 Almost audio Slovenia?
702 Ment on Iran but could be any lang. at 0306, gone by 0315
VOIRI with half a meg at sunrise at the transmitter on south shore of
Caspian???
963 probable Pori in
Nigelk,
Its interesting that we were both listening to 702 at almost the same
time. I came in at 0303 and it was news, primarily by woman,
mentioning Iran, but any newscast in the world might fit that
description. I'll listen to the recording tomorrow morning.
Right now, I'm listening to a
Pretty poor.. The biggest guns in with a small boost on the upper
band after LSR. About the only thing of interest was an unknown
Chinese, not JJ, on 1332.
Well, listening to Arman, suburban Magadan on 234 last night and
finding the transmitter site on Google Earth was fun. Good program o
Low audio on Farda 1575 at 0105. Nothing, I mean NOTHING else.
John B.
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ID just before TOH
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It was another quite good TP morning, with 85 to 90% of the lower
band in audio at some point and close to half of the upper band. For
a change, there was a REAL dawn boost from 1440 until LSR at
1530. In truth, it was pretty poor from 1420 tune-in until the boost
started, then things were rea
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Bill,
Could 738 have been Tahiti???
Nice logging/musing!
John Bryant
At 07:18 AM 11/14/2009 -0500, you wrote:
I don't keep a blog or diary, but if I did, this would be my 'DX' entry for
today:
Nov. 14, 2009
TPs were not as good this morning as they'd been for the past few days.
LatAms w
It was a fair morning with TPs... not quite a good as yesterday, but
a decent late season morning. The only REALLY listenable audio was
the big gun JJs, some of whom had a co-channel. Plenty of other audio
around, it was just somewhat lower and the usual suspects. Soon,
this will be "the good
Out for da evening... social life interfering with radio. Must
rethink priorities.
John B.
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In truth, by body count standards, it was a poor morning... About
half the "normal" number in audio, high and low and generally, the
audio was poor. On the other hand, there were some real interesting things.
639 CNR1 was walking tall most of my 1440-1525 morning
828: a bit after 1500, it was
It was a fair to poor late season morning here, with the only thing
seriously in audio above 1100 kHz. being 1575 (more later). Below
that, about half the channels having at least some audio, a few times
at decent level. The JJs Guns were all there, most at poor levels,
strong audio at least b
This is the first year since we have been spending "6 months" out
here that we have not left for Oklahoma on Monday, almost two weeks
before Thanksgiving (yesterday). This year, we are leaving on
Tuesday, December 2, so I've two more weeks to appreciate the late
season conditions. Speaking of
Absolutely wonderful to read that log,
Walter!!! I've heard a number of outlets of all
of those networks. It was really a thrilling
read. I'll keep this one for sure. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!
I've sure been looking for FF on 666 for New
Caledonia for the past several years. I've h
Less than a third the normal low banders and very few above in audio.
(1251, 1377, 1575)
The only real interest was 720, where there were CC, JJ and KK
stations, and maybe more. I swear that somebody left the air (not
willingly???) at 1507 and I think it was an UNID language, but it was
pret
Got up early this morning (1300 with LSR at about 1530) and decided
to check in with our late season phenomenon of having good Japanese
reception in the 1200 and 1300 range. Well, it turned out to be
Japanese (which died down some by 1500) and Chinese (which came up
even more late) and it was p
I had about 50% of the TPs of yesterday AM and none were particularly
strong or of special interest. Still, I've only a little more than a
week of ANY TPs left, so
John Bryant
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If this had been August, it would have been a very good JJ morning,
at least the part that I enjoyed from 1500-1530, LSR=1527. The bottom
half of the band was well over half full and all of the usual
suspects, JJ variety, were doing quite well, at least part of the
time many were in strong
It was a fairly poor morning, with levels of audio quitew low in most
cases and the few that were coming in well were only on
short-lived peaks, for the most part. I DXed from 1500 until 1540
with LSR at 1530 or so. In ampongst the mediocrity, though, were a few jewels.
The more interestin
Bill and Nigel may well have gotten nothing in audio. I had next to
nothing, especially if you eliminate the murmur level stations
Less than half a dozen of the historically strongest made it into
fair level audio this AM. I hoipe everyone else slept in!
John B.
Four more Mornings
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I was up quite early this AM and started DXing 2 hours before LSR
(LSR = about 1530). Bill, you and Nigel might give the 1200-1330 time
frame a try. My TPs were best, if that is the word, when I started
at 1330. The lower half of the band out 2/3 coverage and most of the
levels were above lang
If you discount the murmurs and JUST above murmurs, I had the JJ big
guns, 711 and 972 Korea and VOA-1575. I had maybe 30 murmurs, mostly low band.
Turkeys and football, that's the ticket!
John Bryant
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Well, if this isn't the beginning of the dreaded Mid-Winter Anomaly,
it is certainly a great imitation of it! Conditions were down, even
from yesterday's poor showing. The only non-murmur above 972 was VOA
1575 and it wasn't all that wonderful. Below 972, there were a few
of the biggest JJ g
I suppose that I heard about what Nick did this ,morning, minus the
DUs, but my experience was probably more negative. I heard the 603
Korean especially well this morning and also noted either two or most
probably three stations on 675. One was Vietnam, surely, but the
others??? Otherwise, th
I had my worst TP morning of this trip mainly because I packed my
radios yesterday. Today is final packing and then tomorrow we head
down I-5 to Bakersfield/Barstow and hang a left. We are going to try
to break the trip up some this year, with a day here and half a day
there, so it will lik
Thanks, Walt...
Mutual admiration society... that is what we've got! I guess that
you will fly over our heads as you wing your way north. We'll be on
I-5 for Tuesday, Wednesday and most of Thursday, overnighting in
Salem, Oregon, Sacremento and preobably Needles, CA or jusrt across
the line
Thanks Patrick,
I'll be at the Seaside Convention for sure. The last one there was
just fabulous.
See you then, if not before!!!
JOhn B.
At 02:16 PM 11/30/2009 -0800, you wrote:
John,
I am sorry Dave and I missed seeing you this year too. Between my busy
schedule and the weather, we neve
Just a warning that we finally made it back to the South Prairie
portion known as Stillwater, OK. When we left Orcas Island,
Washington a week ago minus about three hours, we thought that we
might actually make the shortest run to Oklahoma down thru Salt Lake
and Cheyenne. Our first overnight
I made a first run up the dial about an hour before dawn enhancement
and it was the worst that I've experienced from here this fall. There
was audio from the big Japanese: 594, 747, 774, 828 and quite a few
hets below 1000 kHz and virtually nothing above. The one thing of
interest on the first
Conditions seemed fairly southerly today, without being a real DU
morning. I did hear a few DUs 612, 702 and at times, 3LO was
dominating the normal JJ on 774. The upper band continued to be
rather sparse, with even the Japanese being very attenuated. There
did seem to be quite an opening
This morning was by far the best "Chinese morning" since we returned
from the QCI DXpedirion. The Koreans were back in greater number, as
well and the JJs were doing fine. The lower band seemed to still be
better than the upper, but it was a fine morning all around.
The more noteworthy things:
Someone kindly volunteered to translate any UNID Chinese that we
heard at QCI and I managed to lose the message in the recent flurry.
I'd sure appreciate some help with a single UNID, if you could
recontact me either here or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS!
John Bryan
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I love my WinRadio 313e and attribute a lot of my more recent "new"
stations during dawn enhancement to the graphic display and all-round
agility of that receiver and its GUI. HOWEVER, it is a
computer-driven device and vulnerable to all of the glitches to which
all such are sometimes prone. T
Patrick,
Since I was so short of time this morning, I didn't stop for long on
1053. I did note down that there were two signals plus the jammer on
there. At QCI, we heard a Chinese, possibly running CNR1 news, at
least, on there with the usual Japanese. As far as I know, this is a
complete
My early run up the dial was very encouraging at least the first
half of it. Many of the usual low band JJs were in at better than
normal levels and 675 Vietnam was booming in again (they just must
have invested in new tx + antennas about a year ago.) I even had the
low power STV repeater,
It was another very good morning to East Asia, with loads of JJs and
KKs and quite a decent number of Chinese. Conditions seemed a bit
disturbed as some of the normal stuff was noticeably weaker, some
stronger than usual. There was no real pattern to this, just a bit
more disturbed than usual.
Folks,
Conditions were very good and I heard a number of things that have me
puzzled. Unfortunately, each of the mysteries was only there for a
little while and I'll have to do more checking. Some examples:
783: Two signals and the dominant sounded Vietnamese. No ID and its
been almost 40 yea
The general conditions seemed down somewhat from the last several
days, though most of the usuals were there and at decent levels.
There were a few items of interest:
666 Had a Chinese station running CNR1 news at top of the hour,
mixing with the usual Japanese. This is a Chinese semi-graveyar
It was a mediocre TP morning here, with the high band being
especially weak. Still, most of the JJ, KK and CC regulars were
there just at somewhat lower levels. The items of interest:
639 early 90 minutes before LSR was almost certainly Fiji with
Island Talk. The Victoria troops have b
Wow, just awful conditions my 60 minutes per dawn sweep (1310 UT)
was the worst that I've had this year, even counting the few times
that I checked in late August. The aurora has just got to be kicking
up I had no decent audio at all and only a couple that were at
threshold. WOW!
Howe
Like about everyone else, it was a fabulous Chinese morning for me,
too not quite as good as Patrick, now that he has figgered out
how to hear the Far East, but still pretty fabulous. My early run, an
hour before dawn was pretty Chinese, but not too great. However, once
dawn enhancement kic
It was another excellent Chinese morning. I'm beginning to think
that we are past the peak of the Japanese season here on the Left
Coast and getting to the month that China seems to dominate. I've
noticed the past couple of years that the Japanese seem to come in
best in September and the Chin
Walt and Colin sez:
Colin, John Bryant has done that with a slick crystal set he
purchased on eBay. I believe he accomplished this at Grayland,
though.Walt.
Actually, what I did was TPs on a 1-tube regen set from here on
Orcas Which is quite easy with a good antenna To get the
Another good, mostly Chinese morning. Its hard to believe, but I've
heard three new (to me) CNR1 stations after all of these years...
this week has brought me 540, 837 and, today, 1539. Chuck heard them
at QCI, but they are totally new for me. They were only in for about
15 minutes, but quite
This morning, I was up almost three hours before dawn and the CCs
were already rolling in. Over all, they were not up to the
levels/quality of the past few mornings. Things above 1000 seemed
somewhat down, especially. That being said, it was still pretty
wonderful. The UNID CC on 837 was in
Man,
What a difference a day makes!!! Yesterday was not quite as good as
two-three days ago, but still magnificent. Today just about equals
my worst day in early August! Wow!
I had intelligible audio on 657, 666, 774, 828, 891 and 1566. The
first and last are Korea, the others are JJs. Only
Thankfully, recovery is already well under way. Things were almost
"normal" for me below 1100 kHz. Above there, I had quite a few hets,
but little useable audio except 1566 & 1575. Late, 1287 in JJ came up
to useable level, other than that: nothing of use above 1100.
High points on the low ba
I just got word from a cradle speaker of standard CC that the 837
Chinese that many of us have been hearing at dawn is Harbin
RGD. This is the one that we've been hearing that is not parallel to
CNR Program 1, but is in Standard/Beijing/Mandarin/Putongwha
Chinese. I've heard what I believe is
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