Re: [IRCA] Kona, Hawaii Ultralight DU's for 12-19

[Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

I'm happy that the 819 recording brought back some pleasant (?) memories.

The strength and variety of the Pyongyang stations here in Kona is pretty astonishing, with 621, 657, 801, 819 and 855 all showing up at potent strength tonight. Even the 621 Japanese service at 0950 UTC was pounding in.

As for your offer to type up a list of the audio stream links for the major East Asian networks, I'm sure that it would prove to be most helpful. A lot of DXers rarely hear these stations, and may not be familiar with the parallel frequencies to make sure of the identity of what they heard.

One other station you may remember is 981-CNR1 in Beijing, which was doing its best to melt down my Ultralight's front end tonight at 0955 UTC  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/q6cnm0x8ojocsecu3rfnt5r9lvwn4n00

73, Gary DeBock (in Kona, Hawaii)
 

   
> On December 20, 2017 at 12:28 AM Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 
> Great recording, Gary. I am actually familiar with that tune, believe it or not. Though I must admit, most of them do sound pretty similar. I'm still holding onto a few unposted clips of DPRK TV network audio recorded on their FM audio frequencies, which I should get around to eventually.
> 
> As for everyone else, I often notice that a lot of those East Asian signals are assumed, presumed, or whatever even with audio heard. I'm wondering if people would find it helpful if I typed up a brief list of all the audio streams for all the big often-heard networks in that area. I'm sure that everyone has the stream for HLAZ at the very least, and all of the other big ones that are reported?
> 
> -Chris Kadlec
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> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:22:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [IRCA] Kona, Hawaii Ultralight DU's for 12-19
> 
> The Asians once again slammed the Pacific island DU's with huge signals from 0830-1030, so apparently this is the usual Kona propagation pattern for December. Japan, Korea and China were all well represented, with several wild and wacky S9+ signals from the likes of 819-Pyongyang, 981-CNR1 and 1440-JOWF. 846 and 1440-Kiribati have delayed their sign off until 1014 the last couple of days, so this may be a new programming change. 1440-Kiribati's sign off was particularly interesting tonight, with JOWF doing its best to hold down the frequency. 621-Tuvalu's garbled audio has become a chronic issue, and no longer seems to be intermittent. Unlike April both of these DU's have trouble holding down their frequencies, and around 1000 Tuvalu's garbled audio was so weak that three different TP's (NHK1, Pyongyang and China) were running all over it, TP mixes were all over the band, with Japan, North Korea and China fighting it out. Recordings have been made of all these mixes but there
>  's no time currently to write up a detailed report and post them. The full report will need to wait until return to Puyallup, I'm afraid. In any case I'll post this one wacky recording of 819-Pyongyang KCBS at 1035 tonight (dedicated to Chris Kadlec), with bizarre female doo-wop music loud enough to wake up the dead  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xd18go0080a8xgnku4fcwf3ug2mcaws0
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> 73 and Good DX,
> 
> Gary DeBock (in Kona, Hawaii)
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