[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version.

2019-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Unfortunately, this morning was much more in the "decent burial" category. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): no Reasonable audio at times during the period (much of it understandable by a native speaker, though often battling with splas

Re: [IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version

2018-01-21 Thread Chris Kadlec
1:42 + From: Nick Hall-Patch Subject: [IRCA]TP 20 Jan Victoria version 1575 unID. Beethoven's Fur Elise on piano 1559UT and across hour. There was a note on the MW Circle list that AFN stations were playing classical piano due to gov't shutdownso wonder if this was

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version

2018-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
There were big guns this morningand there were some extremely little guns. Read on. A fair bit of upper band Japanese action today. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 774 JOUB woman in Japanese 1510UT 1566 HLAZ female vocal 1545U

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version

2017-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
The signal strength monitor said that the low band big guns were doing pretty well around 1130UT, but even the SDR was still sleeping then. Pickings were considerably slimmer later. All audio seemed to be Asian. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version

2016-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
All Asia today, including a second tier Japanese on 702. Quite a surprise, given conditions. There was a lively period before 1400UT, then another around local sunrise. pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker, at least briefly): 594 JOAK older woman in Japane

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan Victoria version

2015-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Decidedly poorer here at sunrise compared with yesterday, but a little earlier DX helped to soften the blow. North Flag again seemed better at sunrise, but didn't check until later on in the session. (note to self) pretty darn good audio (all of it understandable by a native speaker,

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan, Victoria version

2014-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Well, it wasn't quite as bad this morning as Colin postulated...there was a bit of sunrise enhancement around 1545UT for example, but nothing like yesterday morning, except for the splatter, and a host of carriers. But...not quite like Bruce's report either. Note the complete absence of Japa

[IRCA] TP 20 Jan; Victoria version

2013-01-20 Thread Nick Hall-Patch
Gosh, another day down the pipe, and I still haven't sent in my loggings. As mentioned, there was some liveliness before 1430UT, but it began to look as if there would be no sunrise boost, as things just got pretty quiet around 1530UT (except for my infernal local electrical noise). But a f