Re: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 September 2017

[Forrester S <amradio1976@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Maldives?

Todd Skaine

On Sep 24, 2017 11:56 AM, "Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> A morning to remember for you. What's next?
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> Chuck
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> Subject: [IRCA] Alberta TPs for 23 September 2017
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>      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.
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> 73,
>
> Nigel Pimblett
> Dunmore, AB
> Perseus SDR with Wellbrook Phased Array
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