Today was arguably less exciting than yesterday - that said, with some better management of time and more patient band scanning (and frequent looks at Nick's West Flag fish bowl report...) some interesting flavours emerged.
567 Khz / 594 Khz - NHK Japan - frequent visitor during a session that lasted from 1338 until 1435 | heard at 1339 UTC 603 Khz UNid - Deep voiced YL often heard through session virtually all alone and often not a peep on 600 - so no QRM - 1340 UTC 612 Khz Brisbane, Australia 4QR - at good levels and 100% copy occasionally from 1352 UTC through 1413 UTC 639 Khz China (t) - Assume the Chinese speaker here briefly in the earlier part of the set with virtually nothing present on 640 khz 1341 UTC 747 Khz Japan - the obvious choice with JJ OM and lesson stuff from time to time - 1342 UTC 774 Khz Japan - last in and last out - almost continuously from 1335 until the last wisp of audio at 1435 UTC - https://youtu.be/h6OXafGVkXw 828 Khz Japan - pretty much the 3rd or 4th pick for morning supremacy with typical NHK programming - 1340 UTC 891 Khz UNid - several contenders all morning until 1421 UTC but no real winners - generally poppy sounding music and spoken word that sounded somewhat Japanese in terms of cadence - but just not sure. 1345 through 1420 UTC 972 Khz - Korea - sharing the 3rd or 4th spot for signal of the morning - but never achieving greatness - often in audio and not appearing on the NHP - FB (accounting for his West facing antenna) 1424 UTC 1053 Khz - S. Korea / Japan (t) - jammer most of the morning but by 1407 was replaced by a Japanese speaking woman - much to my surprise 1116 Khz - ABC 4BC Brisbane - surprised to hear much of any DU - 1349 - with EE OM talk 1143 Khz - UNid - frequent talk (CC sounding) and music - but battling co-channel - 1405 UTC --- 1242 Khz - *UNid* - 2nd to last to leave the session this morning - with very percussive/wooden sounding music and YL heavy pop/torch song sounding content - that matched 774Khz staying power right up to the last seconds. https://youtu.be/yqMPisIPJZI --- 1314 Khz - UNid - China? - very busy sounding CC YL - only brief appearances during the sesh... 1356 UTC 1422 Khz - UNid - OM in lang - but never very good - 1357 UTC 1503 Khz - UNid - YL Chat in non-CC/JJ with long sustained pip on the hour - 1400 UTC 1566 Khz - S. Korea - winner of the signal of the morning award - but constantly challenged by 1575 Thailand - making it more of an upper band morning than a lower band morning - all the time from 1338 through 1420 fade out. 1575 Khz - VOA Thailand - actually pushing 1566 aside as the signal of the morning from time to time with Viet/Khmer/Lao type talk. 1350 UTC Lots and lots of carriers and audio snippets on the likes of 837, 909, 918, 954, 1017, 1278, 1287, 1386, etc Not a lot of nutrition this morning. Lots of snacks and a hungry feeling afterward. Receiver Drake R8 / West / Northwest Flag + Wellbrook FLG100LN Head Amp and HomeBrew VACTROL Termination remote controller ICOM R71a - Wellbrook ALA100 N/S 9 meter loop at 12 ' above ground -- *Colin Newell is the Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com <http://www.Coffeecrew.com> - Coffee.bc.ca <http://Coffee.bc.ca> and DXer.ca <http://www.DXer.ca> -| Amateur Radio VA7WWV | Twitter.Com/CoffeeCrew | Victoria B.C. Canada* _______________________________________________ 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