[IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 September 2017

[Nigel Pimblett <nige2730@xxxxxxxxx>]

    I first got up around 1215 UTC, let out the cat, and checked the 
radio.  Things sounded very dull, and I very nearly went back to bed. 
That would have been a big mistake as it turned out.   In general things 
continued to sound dull, with the Asians (other than HLAZ) vanishing 
after their 1 morning visit, and the recently regular DU signals not 
doing much either.   A strong carrier on 1296 was unusual, so I stayed 
there through 1300, and thought perhaps I'd heard traces of the ABC news 
fanfare (not knowing what that meant at the time), but it was at 
imagination level, so I didn't think much of it.   A bit later on I got 
more audio on 1296.   Sounded like a BBC program at first, so was 
thinking 4RPH, which would have been a new catch for me.   Didn't match 
the website though, and after a bit I realized it was an ABC pgm, and 
matched up with the RN sked for Western Australia.  After that it was 
easy to match up my recording with the podcast.  Once I'd pinched myself 
to make sure I wasn't dreaming it sank it that I'd finally heard my 
first station from Western Australia, and the most distant station I've 
ever logged. (Checked later, and it's 15,700 km)  Just proves once again 
that you never know what is going to show up on any given day.

Today's audio:

612	4QR	Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA	Assumed the one in weakly under IBOC 
noise with woman talking at 1316.

1116	4BC	Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA	Just traces of man talking at 1313.

1296	6RN	Wagin, WA, AUSTRALIA	Heard man and woman talking at 1313, with 
short segments of opera music.   Checking the web site it turned out to 
be a program about opera star Joan Sutherland.  Poor-fair audio for 
about 5 minutes.

1566	HLAZ, 	Jeju,KOREA,S.		Noted at 1259 with Christian song, then talk 
by woman in Japanese.  The only Asian to make it today.



73,

Nigel Pimblett
Dunmore, AB
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array
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